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by colanderman 814 days ago
What implicit gestures? Everything in the Gnome desktop you can get to by clicking the "Activities" menu at the top-left: search bar, dock, applications button, minimized windows, and 2nd desktop all then become visible.

Granted, the applications button icon is quite nondescript (9 dots). But it's still just 2 clicks of prominent UI elements away.

Same # of clicks as Windows (Start -> Program Files) and MacOS (Finder -> Applications).
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blueflow 814 days ago
Maximizing a Window. I had to google how to do it.
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colanderman 814 days ago
What am I missing?.. there is a maximize button in the top-right corner of every window.

EDIT: Oh, I guess these are hidden by default? I don't remember enabling them on my setup but I've been using Gnome a few years now. I agree it would be better if they were visible by default.

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blueflow 814 days ago
I only had a cross to close the window. Ubuntu 22.04.
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