2 panels waste the height needed for web browsing on 16/10 screens

2010-04-02 Thread Jérôme Bouat
Hello, Most of the laptop screens have a 16/10 or 16/9 ratio. However, Ubuntu has a default setting with 2 horizontal panels (on top and bottom of the desktop). This default desktop configuration decreases the space in height. However this vertical space is usefull for browsing the web on sma

Re: 2 panels waste the height needed for web browsing on 16/10 screens

2010-04-02 Thread John King
I noticed this on my laptop; the default Gnome layout looks horrible on it (its too little space on 1280x768, which is considered low-res nowadays). I use the one-panel Linux Mint configuration now, though. I don't think the default layout should change though, perse. Perhaps we'll find these pr

Re: 2 panels waste the height needed for web browsing on 16/10 screens

2010-04-02 Thread Felix Miata
On 2010/04/02 14:01 (GMT+0200) Jérôme Bouat composed: > Most of the laptop screens have a 16/10 or 16/9 ratio. However, Ubuntu > has a default setting with 2 horizontal panels (on top and bottom of the > desktop). > This default desktop configuration decreases the space in height. > However th

Re: 2 panels waste the height needed for web browsing on 16/10 screens

2010-04-02 Thread Dan Trevino
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2010/04/02 14:01 (GMT+0200) Jérôme Bouat composed: > >> Most of the laptop screens have a 16/10 or 16/9 ratio. However, Ubuntu >> has a default setting with 2 horizontal panels (on top and bottom of the >> desktop). > >> This default desktop

Re: 2 panels waste the height needed for web browsing on 16/10 screens

2010-04-02 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 2 April 2010 15:17, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2010/04/02 14:01 (GMT+0200) Jérôme Bouat composed: >> Maybe only 1 panel which includes the windows bar (like the Microsoft >> Windows task bar) would be a good trade-off. > > Kubuntu - one bar > Xubuntu - one bar Ubuntu - one bar (netbook remix) Ubu

Re: 2 panels waste the height needed for web browsing on 16/10 screens

2010-04-03 Thread Jérôme Bouat
> Ubuntu - two bar (desktop edition) The issue is that small screens are now shipped high performance laptop (~1000 €). On those high performance laptops, I would not use the netbook remix flavor but the genuine flavor of Ubuntu. Dmitrijs Ledkovs a écrit : > On 2 April 2010 15:17, Felix Mia

Re: 2 panels waste the height needed for web browsing on 16/10 screens

2010-04-03 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 3 April 2010 09:58, Jérôme Bouat wrote: >> Ubuntu - two bar (desktop edition) > > The issue is that small screens are now shipped high performance laptop > (~1000 €). > > On those high performance laptops, I would not use the netbook remix flavor > but the genuine flavor of Ubuntu. > Using Ubu

Re: 2 panels waste the height needed for web browsing on 16/10 screens

2010-04-03 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Jérôme Bouat wrote: >  > Ubuntu - two bar (desktop edition) > > The issue is that small screens are now shipped high performance laptop > (~1000 €). > > On those high performance laptops, I would not use the netbook remix > flavor but the genuine flavor of Ubuntu.

Re: 2 panels waste the height needed for web browsing on 16/10 screens

2010-04-03 Thread Bill Lee
Dmitrijs Ledkovs 写道: > On 2 April 2010 15:17, Felix Miata wrote: > >> On 2010/04/02 14:01 (GMT+0200) Jérôme Bouat composed: >> >>> Maybe only 1 panel which includes the windows bar (like the Microsoft >>> Windows task bar) would be a good trade-off. >>> >> Kubuntu - one bar >> Xubun

Re: 2 panels waste the height needed for web browsing on 16/10 screens

2010-04-04 Thread Jérôme Bouat
> Maybe it is good that the panels hide automatically when a window > maximize, just like cairo-dock. I think that seeing the panels always is a cognitive feature. I appreciate to see always the windows list. Moreover, think about senior people which could search the hidden panels for many mi

Re: 2 panels waste the height needed for web browsing on 16/10 screens

2010-04-04 Thread Jérôme Bouat
What about putting the current top panel on the left on the desktop ? The "Applications", "Shortcuts" and "System" menu could be replaced by icons. I attached a screenshot of this configuration of the 2 panels. The vertical position of panel at the left can lead to less area consumption than