The "open in new window" icon looks misleadingly like "restore original size" on Windows. Also, once you do, closing the popup removes the component altogether. You actually need to click the icon in the right bottom corner (why there??) so that it returns back to the original layout.
The "_" button works for me (i.e. the middle of the three breakout, minimize, close buttons). I expected it to minimize the window to a taskbar, like in Windows, but it restores it to the original size instead. I found this unintuitive but don't know a better icon.
You can also do this by opening a new window, resizing/positioning it how you'd like, then immediately closing it. Next time you create a new window it will be exactly the same.
I don't know if OP is apart of the org, but it's frustrating that when I maximize a window, and then minimize it, and then re-open it (holy this language is inconsistent), then it sizes back to default. This doesn't occur when you resize the window manually.
Making the browser window smaller after closing the downloads bar is actually a bug, it doesn't do this on other platforms. I think this is fixed in the newest dev builds.
As explained in a sibling comment, the toolkit cannot make assumptions about restoring an apps window state to its previous size. Sure it might work for simple hello world apps that always open the main window, but that's not always the case. Sometimes applications have to open a different window or multiple windows on app startup. The only thing the toolkit can reliably do is translate the requested window size when an application opens a window to the DE so that the DE/WM can place it on the screen.
Because of the dynamic nature of opening windows, app developers should have control over storing/restoring the window size. Simple apps might always store the last window size and restore that exact size on startup. Other apps might have to run some logic first before they know how large the window should be, and then request the toolkit to create a window of that size.
Extra white space makes the window nearly twice the size for no apparent reason.
The old window was twice as big as it needs to be too, but I agree the new one is even worse.
I don't like the flat buttons either. I don't use macOS much, but the old ones with a subtle border look like they're native UI, whereas the new flat ones don't. A random image I found confirms that the old buttons and checkbox look the same as what the OS itself uses, while the new ones look very out-of-place:
When I maximized and then restored, it put the section in a popup window and removed it from the original layout. I would have expected restore to dock the section back in the original layout as before.
It took my months of using the new design before I realized this. My impression before was simply that the design was “broken” on my desktop computer until one day I resized the window and discovered this issue.
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