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[Ian Santopietro <isantop@xxxxxxxxx>]

What happens if you have a narrow window (GIMP, Empathy) stuck behind the
icons on the right? I think that's why Wingpanel's behavior was changed.
On Apr 18, 2011 10:25 PM, "Mehdi Fattahi" <mah.fat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I wonder why the launcher and the top panel overlap in unity. The logic
> behind removing panels and having a dock on the left is apparently
> saving vertical screen real-estate. The top panel is only partially used:
a
> few icons on the far right and one single icon on the far left. Even with
> the global menu enabled not all the panel space is utilized. In the
attached
> picture you can see that this could be implemented much better. I've done
> this using AWN (it's not a mock-up, it's my own ubuntu remaster called
AriOS
> http://arioslinux.org). When you maximize a window the icons sit nicely on
> top of the window title bar.
> The launcher also shouldn't be expanded IMHO. the reason for this is that
> even if you have a maximized window you can still use the free space below
> the launcher to right-click on the desktop or extract or drag and drop
files
> to the desktop.