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[Omar B. <estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:40:11 +0100
> From: joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx
> To: unity-design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Unity-design] Gnome Panel Creates Window Offsetting
> 
> On 21. feb. 2012 03:21, Colton Allen wrote:
> > If a user prefers to have their unity bar fixed (not set to autohide) 
> > then the close, minimize, and maximize buttons are offset to the left. 
> > It disjoints the experience. Why not have the Unity Bar take 
> > preference before the gnome panel. Users with a fixed bar will not be 
> > forced to deal with the offset and users with an autohide bar will 
> > have the gnome panel expand to fill the space left by the, now hidden, 
> > unity bar.
> >
> > Has this been taken into account? I think I read somewhere that the 
> > bar will be fixed by default now.
> >
> > Example: http://i.imgur.com/K4Z0L.png
> >
> When you say Unity Bar, you mean the vertical one at the left hand side, 
> right? That is actually called the Launcher. Unity does not use Gnome 
> Panel. That's a different desktop. It's called Unity Panel.
> 
> It is indeed an issue, and I've spent some time trying to come up with a 
> better solution – including the one you present. The problem with your 
> idea is that it would make it more difficult to close windows without 
> hitting the Ubuntu button, similar to the previous issues with the 
> launcher in auto-hide.
> 



hmm, i actually find the exact opposite. The misalignment makes it harder for me to close windows and instead i get a menu..., because i use the context of the window/app borders as reference.

We need to let users decide if they want these misaligned windows. I for one just think this looks ugly or gives the impression of being half baked/ un finished, and sadly that's the traditional impression linux has always given..


> Interesting challenge.
> 
> Jo-Erlend Schinstad
> 
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