Le dimanche 14 mai 2006 à 21:59 +0200, Reinout van Schouwen a écrit : > On Thu, 11 May 2006 16:33:22 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote: > > > [2] I don't know for sure what other distributions accept the default > > layout. Please do tell if your preferred distribution accepts the default > > panel layout. > > Since you asked :) > > Mandriva uses a two-panel layout, with the application menu, a couple of > launchers and applets at the top, and the taskbar + pager on the bottom. > > http://www.tuxmachines.org/gallery/albums/2006-04/gnome.jpg > > I'm not sure this is the default layout but I guess it is.
It is :) Let's do a little history digging about top / bottom menu panels in Mandriva (for those interested), which might enlight folks here : -initially, Mandrake Linux shipped with default GNOME layout, ie bottom bar with foot until GNOME 1.4, then Ximian GNOME came just after GNOME 1.4 was released and we tried the top menu bar (people liked it at that time, with nice rounded corners). Moreover, since GNOME was not the default environment shipped with our distro, I was more free to try this. KDE on the other hand was using a bottom menu bar, mainly to look like Windows. -then, for Mandrake Linux 9.1 (Bamboo), in mid-2003, as long with our common theming of GNOME and KDE, we tried to unify a little GNOME and KDE panel and switched GNOME to a bottom panel (see http://web.archive.org/web/20030729222330/images.mandrakesoft.com/img/9.1/s3.png ). -but then, the nautilus guys released spatial nautilus and we thought : why try to unify too much both desktop environment, since each one has its own philosophy and design. So, for Mandrake 9.2 (or 10.0, I'm not 100% sure), we decided to revert GNOME layout to the default GNOME layout (top and bottom panels) and since then, we are sticking to this choice. Of course, since GNOME is (still) not our default desktop environment, we are more free to change GNOME layout than other distributions. Moreover, since Novell is targeting previous Windows users (it is quite clear in the betterdesktop videos), it is understandable they put the panel in the bottom of the screen, so users from Windows are not too much confused. As for Fedora / RH, I think it is to keep what they have always done, ie a bottom panel. And I can't speak about Ubuntu guys ;) -- Frederic Crozat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mandriva _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
