On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Ed Lin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Finally, I deeply care about polish, consistency, bug-free-ness and > optimization. This seams to be "unsexy" for developers and often gets > the shorter end in FOSS development.
Preach. > application and this trend is only going up. Especially on a netbook > with Chrome OS soon being the main competitor (and not Windows) the > browser experience should receive priority. Not to mention, other apps are starting to use tabs. > With some patching (i.e. less than making a tab indicator for the > panel) I think a "wing panel" could work with tabs on top (just as > Chrome OS has indicators at the top as well. But regardless, the > indicator area could be smaller, we don't need the shutdown button > there, it could be in the dash, we don't need a mail icon there unless > the user has new mail, we don't need the full user name there by > default. By slimming it down we'd win both space for other controls > that are more frequently accessed and reduce clutter and distraction. No disagreements there. I, for one, hate the little envelope icon which is actually a whole BUNCH of things. I didn't want my IM icon merged with my Email and Twitter ones. --G _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
