Linux Mint

[Liam Proven]

On 24 October 2011 16:34, David Shochat <david.shochat at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Douglas Saylor <absdoug at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm CONSTANTLY bumping into the Unity toolbar. If I go for back
>> button, I overshoot, out comes the toolbar now blocking said button.
>> Same goes for the close, maximize & minimize button. The Unity toolbar
>> sounds right, looks cool I actually WANTED to like it, but in the end
>> I just didn't like it.
>
> I assume you're talking about the Launcher. Have you tried having it
> not auto-hide (so it's just there all the time)?

That's what I do.

>  I think the reasonable user expectation is that you
> should just right mouse on the Launcher and get a "Launcher
> properties" option. Or maybe put it with the other preferences.

Agreed, strongly!

> Also, I think many people have already
> wondered why it can't be relocated to the bottom (default loc for the
> Mac) or RHS.

Speaking from experience of the Dock on Mac OS X, which is very similar:

* The RHS is where scrollbars are found. In maximised windows, if you
whack the mouse pointer over to the right to scroll, you get the Dock
covering the scrollbar which is /very/ annoying.

* The bottom works fine and is the Apple default, but with 16:9
aspect-ratio widescreens becoming the default computer screen size,
vertical pixels are increasingly "expensive" while horizontal ones are
"cheap". My Windows layout, for instance, on widescreen systems, has
the taskbar on the left, the Firefox bookmarks bar in the sidebar on
the LHS, TreeStyleTabs used to move the list of tabs to the RHS, all
just to keep vertical space free for the webpages I am trying to read.
In classic MS Office and OpenOffice, you could move the toolbars into
vertical positions left and right as well, for more readable document
space. This doesn't work in Office 2007+ which is just one reason I
hate those versions myself.

I've been using Mac OS X for a decade, with something much like the
Launcher. The left edge /is/ the best place and now we also know why
the window controls were moved - the story about "windicators" was a
red herring. Ubuntu have done the right thing.

Also, Unity works very well, whereas trying to rearrange the GNOME 2
panels into vertical form was complex, fiddly and worked very badly
indeed.

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