Developer focus for Fedora workstation

[Michael Catanzaro]

On Thu, 2014-08-14 at 23:37 -0400, Adam Batkin wrote:
> * The default theme uses a lot of extra empty space around UI
> controls 
> and also as part of window titlebars. Sure, it's pretty, but you lose
> a 
> TON of useful space. Open something like Eclipse on a Mac and compare 
> with Gnome and see how much extra "stuff" you can see on the Mac
> (hint: 
> Apple has found a way to make the UI both pretty AND functional even
> on 
> screens with limited vertical pixels).

This is a valid point. Adwaita only works well on high-resolution
monitors. KDE is able to fit way more functionality into the same amount
of space, while still looking good.

> Oh, and when I tried another 
> theme that had less blank space around Window titlebars, it turned
out 
> that some windows use some new Gnome API which draws the titlebars 
> differently, so those windows still look like they are using Adwaita

Sounds like a theme that was never updated for GTK+ 3.10, or not updated
properly. Header bars can be themed. The only challenge is that your WM
theme must match your GTK+ theme, otherwise they will look out of place
next to the WM's decorations used by other apps.
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