I don't have it with me right now but you can cut the space used on the title bar quite a bit if you play with the theme XML file.
Might be something for the tweak tool. Sent from my iPhone On 2011-04-09, at 5:01 AM, "Mirek M." <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > I have been following Gnome Shell development for quite a while, reading > blogs and watching videos of it in action. While I really like its user > interface in theory (Hot corner, Exposé, Messaging tray, ...), I was really > disappointed when I tried the final version of Gnome Shell on my netbook > today. > > Because Gnome 3 features bigger UI elements than Gnome 2, Gnome Shell is > unfit for small screens. A number of windows can't even fit on the screen, > and, unless you know that you can move a window using "Alt" (which most users > don't know), you're out of luck [1]. Sometimes, you can't even close this > window because the "Close" button has been removed from the title bar and > resides at the bottom [2] [3]. > Some applications, although they fit inside the screen, are unusable in their > default state. Rhythmbox, for example, can only show about 2 songs in its > default state [4]. Nautilus, although it is somewhat usable, is still a > disappointment over my current Nautilus Elementary window [5][6]. > > Before this is fixed, I will stick to the standard Gnome desktop (or perhaps > switch to Ubuntu's Unity desktop). Or is there a way to fix this right now? > > Also, will fixing this be even considered by the Gnome team or is it too late > for a fix? > (I'm assuming that the fix will come when the Resolution Independence work is > done [7].) > > [1] > https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/wA89CvByxNbpvxGT_Gao9g?feat=directlink > [2] > https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/vL3pm9qQSf4CPv0JFxEm8g?feat=directlink > [3] > https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/jWXIgN27woTpyf9GNU0rOg?feat=directlink > [4] > https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/3LBm6bUky5UMC3dpLmzdNw?feat=directlink > [5] > https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Q2yQZlNB4zm2wndkUhx7DQ?feat=directlink > [6] > https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/6dN2-ZtMzf0kx-2Y833jqQ?feat=directlink > [7] https://live.gnome.org/GTK+/RI > > P. S. I'm new here, so tell me if I did something wrong or if this message > belongs somewhere else. Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
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