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[Carl Simpson <cwd.simpson@xxxxxxxxx>]

It bears note- I don't think Firefox's searchbar will be at that location
for very long, since FF4 has tabs-on-top.

2011/1/15 Brett Cornwall <brettcornwall@xxxxxxxxx>

> Greetings, Ayatana.
>
> With unity coming up there will be quite a lot of space saved with the
> nifty global menu and the housing of the window buttons on the top panel.
>
> Essentially, the titlebar disappearing on maximize causes the search bar in
> firefox (and many other apps such as the software-center, actually) to be
> right smack under the top panel, only taking up a few centimeters under it.
>
> I think this shift can be taken advantage of in terms of notify-osd as
> well. See, the brightness/volume notification bubbles are pretty big. These
> notifications can get reduced in size to accommodate the fact that the
> important stuff is now flush with the panel. This way the non-system bubbles
> can get moved up a bit and free up a little room. The system bubbles are
> even less intrusive (since the person is causing the adjustment these
> notifications require far less attention-grabbing). This also consistently
> differentiates system bubbles and the rest.
>
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/62247339/mockup.png
>
> Take a look at the mockup for an example. I did not alter the sizes of the
> actual screenshots, just the notify-osd bubble. Since the fonts are just
> used differently in Natty than in Maverick it appears altered.
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> --
> -Brett Cornwall
>
>
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