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[GonzO <gonzo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

 On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Ed Lin <edlin280@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

With all due respect: I do not think your cases are all that common.

It doesn't for me, the only thing I use is clock. The rest is
> irrelevant for my me most of the time. Wlan and battery? Not on a
> desktop.


Desktops are becoming less and less popular, being replaced by Laptops and
Netbooks... in which the battery, LAN, WLAN, BT thing are important and need
to be twaddled with regularly.



> Email and IM? My browser is all I need.


I think it is more than fair to say that, for some reason, using locally
installed mail and IM clients is still what most people do.  (I still use
Pidgin, though long ago gave up localized mail).



> Global menu? I use keyboard shortcuts.
>

I sincerely doubt that this is a common scenario.  Even if I'm being
generous, I can only believe that 50% of the users, maximum, even know that
there *are* KB shortcuts for menus, much less what those shortcuts actually
*are*.



> But thanks for making my tabs harder to access.
>

Not all applications have tabs.

So we'd be changing the structure to cater to the small handful of apps that
do (even though, yes, the browser is a Real Important App(TM).


On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Ed Lin <edlin280@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A very rough sketch based on your image and parts scraped from google
> images...
> http://i.imgur.com/WMLYk.png


Again, with all due respect: I do not think this is a good solution.  It is
making the launcher... no longer a launcher, and too much functionality has
already been shoehorned into this thing.

Not to mention, on a netbook resolution, *four* icon slots is way too much -
that's practically half the launcher!

I like indicators being on the screen edge - that's pretty much the only way
they're useful - but shoving them in the launcher, and taking so much of the
launcher's estate to do it, is just not a functional idea.

--G