Just a thought about Gnome3's window title bar.

Steven Stern subscribed-lists at sterndata.com
Mon Aug 15 21:09:47 UTC 2011


On 08/15/2011 12:24 PM, William Case wrote:
> When I see how clean a window can be, metacity, I started wondering if
> the widow title bar is even needed.  It seems to come from the Microsoft
> tradition.  On my screen the title bar takes up 3/8" vertically.  Two
> windows open on the same desktop and you have lost 3/4" of real estate.
> Meanwhile the menu bar at most uses 4" to 5" horizontally, the rest is
> just wasted space.  I wonder if someone can think through a new
> arrangement? 

Can you say "OS/X"? <smile>

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-- Steve


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