For all of your information, with the upcoming 14.04 version of Ubuntu, those thingies can be switched back from the top of the screen to the title of the window easily! It was observed, that with large resolution monitors, or trackpads you have to move your mouse pointer much more, to access those buttons. (What a surprise). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teAFgtHWDso The unused menu bars will automatically retreat and reappear if needed, to spare space. This is just one outcome of a lot of engineering work. Obsolete Compiz Decor plugin and gtk-window-decorator was an impediment of the project since, the new features wouldn't be possible with those. So they threw out the gtk2 based window decorations, the new ones even support gtk3 CSS themeing. The resize of the windows became faster, the appearance became better, and now better dynamic scaling (needed for high DPI) is possible. The place of the menu bar will be configurable BTW. If you like the Mac style (it looks like you also don't), then you can have it. I don't know what will be the default.
Ubuntu doesn't have to mimic every part of MacOS X. In fact, the less mimicking the better. Csaba On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > Whilst looking to solve a different problem, what should come to my bleary > eyes but Ubuntu-Tweak <http://ubuntu-tweak.com/> The most important > element therein is the ability to move the ~!@#$% minimize, maximize, close > do-thingies to suit: left, right. There are other points of joy to be > found. > > Some of us really _don't_ care that linux should look like a Mac, thank > you very much!!! > > Honorable mention goes to alacarte with a caveat. When I try to launch > alacarte from Applications / System Tools / Administration / Alacarte, it > fails with a useless error message. If I go to the command line and sudo > alacarte - it comes up fine. hmmmmm > > Mind you, the system in question is Ubuntu 12.04 using gnome-shell. As > always YMMV, YKWIMV... > > Howard > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
