[ubuntu-art] Intrepid Panels

[Jussi Kekkonen]

I know this is stupid but, do user need full width panel, not to
mention TWO of them... oh well :)

2008/4/30, sylvain marc <sam7.ubuntu at gmail.com>:
> Dou you want the Bubuntu panel ?
>
> 2008/4/29 Sumit Agarwal <sumit.chandra.agarwal at gmail.com>:
>
> >
> > On Apr 29, 2008, at 9:42 AM, Steph wrote:
> >
> >
> > * The animated, "live" wallpaper : it'a good idea, as long as it doesn't
> > use more than 5% of CPU or GPU (better), and if this is realized, we have
> to
> > check if it's really that eye pleasant. Animation is cool, yes, but really
> unobtrusive.
> > We could try to reproduce a feature of the  Sony Ericsson
> >
> <http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/mobilephones/overview/s500i?cc=fr&lc=en>S500I
> >
> phone<http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/mobilephones/overview/s500i?cc=fr&lc=en>,
> > wich changes its wallpaper along the day. My girlfriend has one, it's
> really
> > beautiful, and not stressing at all
> >
> >
> > The a first proposition for Intrepix : what about increasing the size of
> > both gnome panels ? The default, lowest size is 24 pixels, and setting it
> at
> > 32px produces a much pleasing effect. A pleasing desktop shouldn't force
> > user to squint to see what's written. Those who have a bad vision would be
> > glad. Technically, I don't know if this increase of panel size causes some
> > problems with window display, if anybody can tell me more about this...And
> > then, we should __definitely__ find a gnome panel background, or anything
> > but delete this stupid grey color.
> >
> >
> > 5% CPU utilization is too high, in my opinion. GPU certainly would be much
> > better. Remember that more and more people are using Ubuntu on laptops,
> and
> > even desktop users are becoming concerned about energy usage. For these
> > reasons whatever dynamic desktop solution we have must not interfere with
> > the CPU going into power-saving cycles. Even a very mild constant CPU load
> > keeps the CPU awake much more than is necessary.
> >
> > I do agree on making the panel (yes, singular) bigger. And, as you might
> > also assume, I am for eliminating one of the panels. The top panel in
> > particular has lots of wasted space. We need to find an acceptable way to
> > either 1) combine both  panels or 2) make proper use of the top panel. The
> > only sensible use I can find for the top panel is for it to assume menubar
> > functions from GTK apps (a la Mac style). Of course, this is far from
> > universal in the Linux world and would break in such common apps as
> Firefox
> > and OpenOffice.
> >
> > My vote is for a larger singular panel.
> >
> > -Sumit
> >
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>


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Jussi Kekkonen