Donato, There was a recent discussion about titlebars, and Florian Mullner gave some amazing comments on the topic. I will quote him, because it sounds like it may be something you are asking about. At the bottom of this quote he gave links to 2 great mockup pages. (*Hopefully he doesn't mind me doing this...*)
Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:14 AM Hey, > On vie, 2011-10-07 at 09:43 +0200, Aurélien Naldi wrote: > > some personal thoughts: > > * The title bar IS too large by default, reducing its size using > > gnome-tweak-tool helps > Note that the default size has been decreased in 3.2 > > > * I LOVE the fact that unity hides the title bar for maximized windows > > and I think gnome-shell should do something similar. > It is something that designers are considering. There are still a lot of > open questions, but I think it's fairly safe to say that we won't > "merge" the titlebar with the top bar as Unity does (e.g. window > controls won't appear in the top bar), but rather hide it completely. > > > * As the main focus was about the menu bar, I have to say that I like > > the unity behaviour for maximized windows, but I hate it for other > > wondows, having to make sure the right one is focussed and move to the > > top is cumbersome. > I don't think we want to do that, except for "global" application > options which should appear in the application menu (the one with the > lonely "quit" action). In fact, there's the feeling that many > applications could do without a menu bar to begin with (obviously not > LibreOffice/Gimp, but pretty much anything "less complex")[0][1] > > > As a result here is what I would love in gnome-shell: > > [...] > > * merge the menu bar into the title bar: we get pretty much the same > > behaviour as unity for maximized windows, but something much more sane > > for other windows. > This has the potential of reducing the draggable titlebar area to zero, > so I don't think it is a very compelling option :-) > However, if an application's menu "bar" is reduced to a single toolbar > button (similar to the menu buttons found in Firefox/Chromium), it might > indeed make sense to move it into the titlebar (ignoring for a moment > that it would be far from trivial to implement it). > > Florian > [0] https://live.gnome.org/Design/Whiteboards/Menus > [1] https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree/Features/ApplicationMenu On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Malcolm <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:39:09 +0100 > Donato Marrazzo > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Unfortunately, in the last years notebook adopted 16/9 ratio for their > > displays: it seems that the primary job for a laptop is watching > > movie!!! What a shame! > Hi > Have you tried the F11 key, that's what I use on my netbook? > > -- > Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) > openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.9-desktop > up 2 days 2:10, 5 users, load average: 0.45, 0.30, 0.20 > GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 285.05.09 > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list >
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