2011/10/17 Matthew Paul Thomas <m...@canonical.com> > > What would help here is for someone to make a screenshot comparison of > the same windows, laid out in exactly the same positions, on Ubuntu, > Windows, and OS X. > > .... > > We might find that the problem is partly font size, but partly also > size and padding of interface controls. >
Here are two similar images showing the file browser and text editor in Windows 7 and Ubuntu Oneiric. - Ubuntu <http://image-upload.de/image/KUAqjL/28a9103bae.png> - Windows 7 <http://image-upload.de/image/uyfCCE/e1bc89e7fa.png> Padding (buttons) and font size are smaller and therefore the interface looks & feels cleaner in Windows 7. Thats the reason why smaller windows seems to be more useful in Windows than in Ubuntu (compared same sized windows). Traditionally GNOME has a lot of padding (negative example → Totem controls) and wasts a lot of screen space (has been reduced a bit last cycles). So what to do? - Analise every default application UI if they need that big buttons and that much padding/margin - use the same padding/margin in every application if possible - Reduce padding and font size - just a bit → huge difference Kind regards Thibaut PS: If anybody uses Ubuntu, Win & and Mac and could make more comparison screenshots it would be awesome. I use Windows only for gaming → my Wintendoo ;)
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