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To me, this seems to be an "opt-out" rather than "opt-in" sort of thing. The easiest parallel would be maximizing windows in Windows or most Linux WMs: you can maximize all windows by default, but they are free to disallow maximizing. This seems a more reasonable approach.



Full screen mode in Lion is a little more than just maximizing window to fill the screen, though. Developer can/may/should also provide an alternative UI that's tailored for full screen and may update the UI depending on top menu bar's visibility. iPhoto and Photo Booth does this, for example. If bookmark bar is hidden in Safari, it will be shown when you point the mouse at the topmost of the screen (make the menu bar visible for extra controls).


Yes, I could see that. However, that still doesn't mean it should be opt-in for everybody. For most programs--particularly text editors--going full screen is basically minimizing.

I really like how KDE handles this: by default, full screen is like maximizing and turning off the borders/title bar (the window might also cover the panel on the bottom, but I have that hidden so I don't know). However, programs are free to do whatever they want in full-screen mode; Chrome, for example, treats it just like F11.

This lets me have the best of both worlds--if software does something special, it can; if it doesn't, I can still have it full screen, which is especially useful for programs like Emacs (which is its own window manager, really ;)).




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