On 7/15/07, Jari Rahkonen <<a href="mailto:jari.rahkonen@pp1.inet.fi">jari.rahkonen@pp1.inet.fi</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I'd have to go with the "traditional" one too. The single-bottom-panel layout is probably the one most of us have grown accustomed to. From the usability viewpoint it might be best to make the panel full width to put the menu button in the lower left corner of the screen. And maybe add a label or make the button wider by some other means for discoverability. But then someone would get their panties in a bunch and say we're copying Windows I guess... </blockquote></div> I'm not a fan of the double-panel GNOME-like setup either. It seems like a waste of screen real estate, especially now that widescreen displays are becoming very common. I also use a full-width single bottom panel, à la Windows. A lot of people seem to do this, or use a single top panel, in a pseudo-OS X manner. As for people complaining about copying the Windows UI, have you seen most of the screenshots on Xfce-Look and GNOME-Look? Just about everyone is attempting to copy the Vista and OS X desktops.