The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

>> Three points:
>> 1. We freed up vertical space by removing the bottom panel.

> I don't have a bottom panel. As I explained in my earlier comment, I only
> have a panel on the left side of the screen. I don't have a panel on the
> top or the bottom. Adding an unmovable top panel removes vertical space--a
> huge amount of space on a netbook screen.

Seconded, since the decline of full-height monitors I can't understand why we keep forcing the dead screen space to be along the top (or bottom). Most users have more width than height.