Developer focus for Fedora workstation

[Christian Schaller]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Catanzaro" <mcatanzaro at gnome.org>
> To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" <desktop at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 3:09:27 PM
> Subject: Re: Developer focus for Fedora workstation
> 
> 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.

I don't think this is true. My laptop doesn't have a high-resolution monitor and
Adwaita works well. That said with the move to Headerbars there amount
of wasted space should become tiny:
http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2014/01/13/client-side-decorations-continued/


> > 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.