Integrated title bars and tabs - location of icons irritating

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When having tabs and title bars integrated the way icons on the right upper corner are located is rather irritating. Sometimes the icons seem to be related to the whole group, sometimes they are not integrated and are located below. I suppose this is due to some of the windows having custom window controls and some standard windows title bars. 

Example: I grouped 1 desktop app with standard title bar (mail client),  1 "windows store app" (calendar) and one app with custom window controls (Whatsapp) in order to have communications in one group. On every tab the location of the icons is different and on the mail client the icons seem to suggest that they close the whole group but really just close that tab. 

Though I realize that this is difficult to realize, I think there needs to be some kind of standardization of appearance and function. 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

How it works depends on the mode Groupy is set to.

If the window has a custom titlebar then it is in complete control of its titlebar.  We cannot show or hide the icon or text as it will be drawing it.

Groupy tabs themselves can be set to show or hide the icon in the tab and if Groupy is not set to combine tabs with the window then the original window will retain its original look as well below the tabs.

Note that Windows Store apps do not show a titlebar icon usually and they will also not show a tab icon in Groupy.  This would be inconsistent with other applications with or without Groupy running.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Windows Store Apps show the regular title bar icons "minimize" "windowed mode" and "close" on their windows for quite a while now. That there is no tab icon in groupy is true - but they do have an icon in their own titlebar. Is that icon not accessible? 

Maybe for consistency an integrated title bar could always show the standard buttons on the upper right, even if they are just a duplification of the ones in the row below. 

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Another idea: choosing the option to create an extra title bar for the tabs makes it more consistent in general. But for autogrouped apps like explorer it just wastes screen space. If one could choose that option as a general rule and additionally individually for each autogrouped set that would solve some of my "problems"...