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[Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 16:09, Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Furthermore, Lucid now introduced session status indication, such
> as the icon going red for indicating need to reboot, so it's even
> more blurry now. I, myself, was particularly interested in
> exploring the potention of session status indication, so I'm torn
> on this one. :)
>

no need to be torn Conscious, indicate status (logged in identity) on the
right somehow integrated with messaging, control start/stop session on the
left..


>
> > Tabbed Applications:
> > Firefox, gedit, Nautilus, etc.  All these applications have their
> > close buttons on the right hand side of their respective tab.
>
> Yeah, Gtk should allow the theme to easily change the position
> of the tab buttons. How difficult would be patching that? Any
> Gtk gurus here? :)
>
> > GNOME Shell:
> > This may be something more for GNOME devs, but the window controls end
> > up on the right when using GNOME Shell, also closing windows from the
> > Activities Overlay also is in the upper right corner.
>
> Well, the Shell is supposed to be insanely configurable via
> javascript extensions and CSS, so'd be surprised if such
> positioning is hardcoded.
>

hurts.. i stopped coding JavaScript after a few weeks of experimenting with
cheap rollovers about a decade ago.. It's so much more worth learning with
GNOME Shell coming at us like this!