Gnome 3

[Jeffrey Gray]

Very interesting.  I knew that Mac OS X was derived from BSD but did
not know that it was components of FreeBSD AND NetBSD that fed to an
interim OS that OS X was derived from.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2 December 2011 14:32, Jeffrey Gray <chevy4x4burb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, I am not using 2D or 3D Unity.  My beef with Unity was the
>> stupid bar on the left that would not move.
>
> The Launcher is on the left for an assortment of good reasons.
>
> [1] The design goal of Unity was to efficiently use widescreens. On
> widescreens, there is much less vertical space available relative to
> horizontal space. Horizontal pixels are "cheap", vertical ones are
> valuable. GNOME 2 panels did not work when rearranged vertically -
> believe me, I spent a lot of time and effort trying. This means it
> could not go on the bottom of the screen like Mac OS X's Dock does by
> default. That "real estate" is too precious.
>
> [2] This means it has to go along one vertical edge. Which one, left or right?
>
> Well, by default, it autohides. When you move to the right of the
> screen, it appears and may overlay your window. *But* scrollbars are
> on the right, so put the Launcher on the right and whenever you go for
> a scrollbar, the Launcher will cover it.
>
> I have tried this arrangement on Mac OS X, trying to make it look more
> like NeXTstep, the OS that Mac OS X is based on. (I preferred the
> NeXTStep look, myself.) It worked on NeXTStep because NeXTStep
> scrollbars were on the *left*. Mac OS X and Ubuntu ones are on the
> right, mainly because MS Windows ones are on the right and everyone's
> used to it now. Thus putting the Launcher on the right does not work.
>
> [3] So, it has to go on the left.
>
> This means special importance was attached to the top left corner -
> it's where (on 11.04) you went to open the Dash. The Launcher and the
> Dash are integral partners so they anchored the Launcher where the
> Dash button would be - on the left.
>
> It *is* the best place for it, for good solid reasons, and so, I
> presume, to encourage people to get used to it, they fixed it there
> and stopped you moving it.
>
> Note that the GNOME 3 "dash" bar is on the left as well, and if you
> can move that, I've not yet found a way.
>
>
>> What I did was install the xubuntu-desktop package so it is kinda like
>> Xubuntu.  I am contimplating wiping and reloading this weekend with
>> the actual xubuntu distro iso.
>
> That's fine. I am happy to hear that you like it.
>
> But the things that you are complaining about are the way they are for
> good solid reasons, so there is no point in complaining about them.
>
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