The mysterious green "Expand window" button

Mac OS X windows have three colored buttons in the top left corner - close, minimize and expand. Clicking close or minimize does exactly what you expect. However, clicking expand is a bit of a gamble. Depending on which app you're running, expand window does whatever the hell it wants to.

In iCal, it expands the window to fill the screen.
In iTunes, it switches the window to compact mode.
In Safari, it resizes the window to fit the content it's displaying (ish).

Make up your mind, Apple!

Comments

ThreeX

1 year ago

True, one action for all applications would be nice.. A little consequent behaviour shouldn't be too much to ask?

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