Re: White Space (Re: UI suggestion: gnome-dock)

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

I got one mail from someone who did not see the option to turn off toolbar
labels.  Just uncheck "toolbars have text labels" checkbutton on the
"Application Defaults" capplet in the "User Interface Options" section of
the control center.

Also, you can turn off menu item and standard dialog button pixmaps from
this capplet, which should further reduce screen real estate usage.

If you have a small display and have not made these changes, try it out
and see if it makes GNOME better for you.  If you can't remember what the
toolbar buttons do, there is always the tooltips.

As for other parts of gnome, I have sometimes wondered what a "tiny theme
engine" would be like.  Basically it would be the standard theme engine,
but reduces the extra padding on some of the widgets.  This together with
a smaller default font (which can be selected from the theme selector
capplet) should give more space for notebook screens.

James.

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On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Bob Smith wrote:

> 
> James Henstridge wrote:
> 
> >If you do not want text+icons in the toolbar buttons, just change your
> >preferences in the control center (it should be under user interface
> >options, application defaults).  As for excessive white space, this is a
> >little harder to fix (and quite a subjective criticism -- I think the
> >spaced out GUI looks quite nice personally).
> >
> It looks very nice on my 21" monitor too, when I happen to be home, but it
> wastes serious amounts of real estate on the notebook I'm usually using. I'd
> love the option of a much leaner, but still attractively Gnome-ish
> configuration. (unfortunately, since I can't code it myself, the developers
> should take a (well deserved) break to howl and throw things at me)
> 
> Bob   rwsmith@cnw.com
> 
> 
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