On 21 December 2010 11:21, Mark Shuttleworth <m...@canonical.com> wrote:
> > We definitely need a natural way to move between "full screen" (no > panel) and "panelled" mode, across multiple apps. And perhaps we need a > good way for things like indicators to show up at appropriate times, > when the panel is not being displayed. > > Just to clarify, do you mean that there would be a system-wide on/off switch for the Unity panel (my request) or do you mean that entering an app into a "fullscreen" mode would remove the panel (which, while a cool feature, is not quite what I was after :) ) > So kudos to the Elementary team for their explorations with wingpanel. > > In terms of space efficiency, though, if you maximise a window and have > wingpanel float over it, you effectively have the same thing as the > design goal for 11.04 Unity: maximised windows put titles / window > controls / windicators into the panel themselves. And if you're not > using a maximised window then space efficiency is by definition not your > primary concern. > > The obvious difference is of course the global menu. Indicator-appmenu is my only gripe with Unity, and the reason is that I use more than one monitor and focus follows mouse on my work desktop; a global menu isn't a great fit for this. I want a consistent experience across all my PCs and so if I remove indicator-appmenu from one, I'll remove it from all. This leaves me with a rather irritating blank panel stretched across the desktop that I can't do anything with. Wingpanel is for me the ideal solution; hence the bug report, I'd like to run Wingpanel + Unity Dock together (which would be my ideal setup, I even mocked up this exact setup on Ayatana before Wingpanel even existed: https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg04044.html ) > I can see that there's a "lightness" of the desktop without the panel, > yes. So I think this idea has merit and is worth exploration. I would > welcome mockups and discussion on the Ayatana list, cc'd. > > Mark > > > Cool :)
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