The slow evolution of the interfaces or the Saga of the fourth button

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With the advent of windows on our desktops we have a Windows application, and these Windows had to manage. Were made two buttons "minimize window" and "expand to full screen", but quickly the designers of the windows interface have realized that to close the Windows you have at least to minimize and maximize to full screen and the interface has got the third button in any caretaker status and is already more than twenty years, and not only on windows. Makos and various desktop environments for Linux use a completely similar system, except that the position of these buttons changes sometimes (one in the upper left corner of the window, they'll put someone in the right).

What has changed in 20 years? At some point, one brilliant designer came up with wonderful idea to minimize your application to tray. And another no less brilliant designer came up with the idea to use the "close button". And at the moment we have several applications that by clicking on the close button the window is closed, and the other part of the application by clicking this button minimizes to tray. And as a result completely unpredictable behavior of the interface, which makes it completely a long time.

Gentlemen, how long are we going to suffer before someone of the developers of the OS interface come to mind to return the button to its original function, and to minimize to tray will make a separate button (if this feature is actively used and is quite popular among developers)?

Thank you.

UPD. Over again in the reviews have to write, that the button can be done optionally activated in the design, for those applications which need it (as well as during development disable the button "expand to full screen").
Article based on information from habrahabr.ru

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