I can't minimize iTunes 11 window by double-clicking on the title bar. It's as if minimizing the full window to the new mini-player has wiped out this functionality.
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), unreleased iMacs
Only way to minimize it to the dock is clicking the ➖ button, the second one from the top left corner.
Upper right corner is an icon - rectangle in a larger rectangle - click on that and you will get the mini -player.
MJ
Thanks for the feedback, Stephen and MJ. It's just interesting to me that iTunes 11 is now an exception to what I thought was a global setting to minimize a window to the dock. I think that Apple did a great job of streamlining the appearance of iTunes, so I think that my original question is more of an observation and along the line of, "is this where Apple is headed, removing the double-click to minimize feature?"
For anyone else who might read this, the global setting for minimizing a window by means of a double-tap to the title bar, here is the System Preferences > Dock window:
I have used this minimize window feature since the days of old, but I must be in the minority.
thanks!
Todd
I reported this as a bug to Apple. AFAIC, a global setting is a GLOBAL setting. If my Dock prefs say double-click should work, and all my apps DO work this way (Apple and 3rd party), then iTunes 11 must not be working correctly.
Thanks Caffeine for reporting it so I don't have to:) Total bug. I'm not sure Apple really cares, though. The last bug I reported back in Leopard, since hasn't been fixed. (The drag and drop from the Preview sidebar, for multiple, selected images, doesn't work)
I also use the double click for itunes, and it's annoying that it's broken now.
I also use the double click to minimize regularly. I find it odd and annoying that they either took it away or its a bug and they messed up.. either way I hope they add it back.
I've been finding a lot of complaints about iTunes 11 and I don't really have any except that I can't minimize with the double click. I use it on everything and have for years. Sadly, I found that some people don't know this function exists. I can't imagine. CaffeineIV is absolutely right about it being a Global setting that should work on everything when you have it selected in prefs. Hope this is considered a bug and gets fixed.
If OS X and iOS converge at some point in the forseeable future, then I could imagine Apple asking its users to adapt, as well. I didn't have any issues making the switch to "natural scrolling", but perhaps that's because I'm not being asked to include any extra moves in my behavior (or, the real-world analog to "natural scrolling" is, well, just natural).
Going to the menu bar and pulling down the menu to click on "Minimize" versus minimizing a window via a double-click feels like I'm being asked to make a bigger behavioral change. If this change was made by design, and is not a bug,... then I would just be glad to know that I have to adapt and not hold out for this feature to reappear in a newer version of iTunes.
Luckly, Command-M still works.
i agree that this is an annoyance. i kept thinking, "if i just go to the right place in the title bar, i'll surely find the place where double-click will minimize." i think i clicked around for a minute or so - no luck.
sigh.
i've been using this feature to minimize for years - it's the quickest by far for this operation (much quicker than moving the cursor over to the "-" button and clicking, or using the Window->Minimize pulldown, or Command-M). for those of us that have many applications and windows open at once, optimizing the amount of time we use doing these kinds of things is important.
netniks wrote:
I can't minimize iTunes 11 window by double-clicking on the title bar.
Because there is no title bar to click in iTunes 11.
>Because there is no title bar to click in iTunes 11.
I would have thought the upper area which contains the Close, Minimize, Maximize, Miniplayer, and other Maximize buttons/Icons would have been considered the "title bar" for iTunes, at least conceptually if not formally.
if they've done away with the title bar entirely (as a formal element of the UI for the application), that's another bad design decision, i think.
in any case, this is semantics, whether there is a formally defined "title bar" or not, they could have left the functionality that if you double-click in the upper part of the window, it will minimize. and by the "upper part of the window" i mean the bits outlined in red in this image:
It's called a title bar because it has the title of the open document in it.
It had also been removed in a prior version of iTunes but was put back in the next version.
if they've done away with the title bar entirely (as a formal element of the UI for the application), that's another bad design decision, i think.
in any case, this is semantics, whether there is a formally defined "title bar" or not, they could have left the functionality that if you double-click in the upper part of the window, it will minimize. and by the "upper part of the window" i mean the bits outlined in red in this image:
Suggestions here -> http://www.apple.com/feedback/
> It's called a title bar because it has the title of the open document in it.
still mostly semantics. the app can be made to minimize when double-clicked in the areas i pointed out.
fitt's law tells you that it's much more efficient in general to have a larger area to click in, and shorter distance to move, which the current UI for iTunes violates badly.
I hope they add this functionality back. Every other app in OS X has the title bar, as well as the "global" option for double clicking to minimize. Every 3rd party application has this as well.
Extremely bad move on Apples part. I'm shocked they haven't fixed this is 11.0.1 either - they delayed the release further to "do it right" and they still missed the boat.
Minimize iTunes 11 window?
