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Shuttleworth: Window indicatorsShuttleworth: Window indicatorsPosted May 5, 2010 11:50 UTC (Wed) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106)In reply to: Shuttleworth: Window indicators by freemars Parent article: Shuttleworth: Window indicators
"In fairness to Shuttleworth, the near-universal switch to 16:9 displays is a bit of a game-changer. Anything that takes up vertical space on screen now must be considered very carefully."
My 16:9 monitor has just as much vertical space as my old 4:3 monitor had; more, actually, because 900 > 768. Vertical space is no more expensive now, it's just that horizontal space got a little cheaper.
Vertical space is generally infinite and horizontal space at a premium, or so people always told me when they criticized the way that I sacrificed 48px of the right side of my screen for an always-visible dock and gkrellm.
If vertical space is really important why not ignore client side decorations and simple use a WM (or WM theme) with decorations on one side, or both sides, of the window? A far more sane, simple and standard solution.
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Shuttleworth: Window indicators Posted May 14, 2010 16:28 UTC (Fri) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
Yep. Or automatically hide borders and decoration when an app is maximized - used in the KDE Plasma Netbook interface. Will also be an option in Kwin on the Plasma 4.5 or 4.6 desktop (not sure if it made the cut for 4.5).
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