Re: [Ayatana] Introduction and suggestion

[Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx>]

> Additionally, with the window title and controls visible in the panel
> for maximized windows, I don't feel it's confusing for a user to
> understand that the panel *is* the title bar in that case. A panel
> that looks like the title bar is not required for this distinction to
> be apparent; the functionality takes care of this quite nicely.


I don't think Phong said anything about being confusing to the user.
I think he was simply talking about visual consistency, the same
motivation that made you write your first email.

In fact, in my personal opinion what you are proposing is *less*
consistent than what we currently have because the panel and the
launcher are currently different visually but at least they *are*
different things. What you are proposing will bring two different
visuals to *the same thing* (the titlebar).

Anyway, this whole discussion is not very relevant for the moment
because it is being based on the currently visual of the panel,
which is hardcoded. Much more important right now is making the
launcher themable by the Gtk theme. After that, discussions about
consistency can be brought up to the theme designers in the form
of bug reports.

Right now, with no theme support on the launcher, it doesn't
matter how great it would be making the launcher and the panel
consistent if they both look good on Ambiance but horrible on
Luminance.