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["Scott E. Armitage" <launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  On 27/05/10 21:51, Scott E. Armitage wrote:
>
Could we see some mockups with the status bar displaying outside the window
>> border? I have run into this situation in Chrome on OS X and Windows before
>> under certain circumstances, and frankly I prefer it to in-window overlays.
>> Of course if the window is near or at the bottom of the screen, we would
>> move the overlay up into the window as required.
>
> Interesting idea. Hard to achieve without window-manager support, though,
> and I think this is something I'd prefer to keep tight to the window itself.
>

Hmm, good point. Maybe something to keep in mind though as we move forward
and start having to deal with usability. I guarantee there will be people
that complain about the status bars getting in the way of what they are
trying to do =P

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 28/05/10 14:55, dani planas armangue wrote:

>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Maverick/daniel%20status%20buble?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=compact01.png

>

Nice


Agreed, I think these are much less in-your-face =)

-S


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University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies
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