A Thought About F9 Artwork

[Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek]

2008/1/10, Martin Sourada <martin.sourada at gmail.com>:
>
> On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 10:11 +0100, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
> > 2008/1/9, Luya Tshimbalanga <luya_tfz at thefinalzone.com>:
> >         Valent Turkovic a écrit :
> >         >
> >         > I know that lot of things you can't change because Gnome is
> >         > responsible for that. Nobody has touched gnome
> >         panels  design wise
> >         > since FC1, maybe I'm overstating it but it looks like that
> >         to me. New
> >         > theme isn't needed just in present one do something with
> >         gnome panels.
> >         > Why are gnome panels so plain?
> >         You mean Fedora 3 because the previous version only has one
> >         bottom
> >         panel. The difficulty is also to consider usability when it
> >         comes to
> >         artwork.
> >
> >         Luya
> >
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> > GNOME is very usable, but two panels can be confusing solution.
> > Next thing I don't like is the default menu in the top panel.
> > This menu have no "favourites". I dislike it.
> >
>
> Actually I find 2 panels to be much better than one. The favourites are
> handled in the bottom panel (by hand, as I am the one who knows best
> what I'd like to have accessible via one-click) as well as some applets
> like volume setting, trash, log out, lock screen, run, notify area and
> virtual desktop switcher... In the top one I have menu, window list and
> some applets that say whats going on (i.e. how much network traffic I
> have, how much CPU is used and what datum and time is it). I find it
> very convenient, easy to manage and fast to use, much better than only
> when panel setting - to me it seems one panel for all the things I'd
> like to have accessible on one click is not very useful... (as a matter
> of fact, when I occasionally use windows I find the one panel with start
> menu quite confusing and shortcoming of space).
>
> But what I want to say with it, the default configuration is chosen to
> fit most of the gnome users, but not everyone use it as is, but make
> their own layout, but still I think two panels have much more positives
> than negatives over one panel. Also having the menu on the top is nice,
> since application menus are on the top of window as well, so it is more
> logical.
>
> Just my 2$.
>
> Btw. if you'd like the default panel configuration changed, make your
> proposal on the fedora-desktop-list [1], I am sure they'll gladly
> discuss it with you.
>
> Martin
>
> References:
> [1] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
> [2] http://mso.fedorapeople.org/screenshots/panels.png - what panel layout
> I find to work the best for me
>
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I dislike favourites etc in panels/dock. I even hate it.
Menu with "favourites" is better idea imo.

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Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek
http://liviopl.jogger.pl/
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