Re: Thoughts on the left hand sidebar

[Ross Smith <myxiplx googlemail com>]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Anton Kerezov<ankere gmail com> wrote:
> I think it would be best to add full screen mode for the sidebar that
> modifies with some kind of background that expands to the borders of the
> full screen window and makes the illusion that there is no unused space.
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> As far as your proposals:
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> 1.       This will make it too cluttered
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> 2.       The sidebar was created to remove these functions from the top
> panel so we remove this option.

Can I ask what functions are being moved to the sidebar?  Personally
I'm not a fan of the sidebar, especially since I think gnome-shell is
making it possible to have a much tidier interface.  It looks to me
like a single panel can do everything that's needed, with plenty of
free space on it too.

And for me, the fact that despite all their efforts, Microsoft are
removing the Vista sidebar from Windows 7 shows that there really
aren't many benefits to sidebars.

> 3.       Possible but right now I guess it is not implemented because the
> basic functionality is not in place yet.
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> Anton
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> From: gnome-shell-list-bounces gnome org
> [mailto:gnome-shell-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of David Stansby
> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 2:59 PM
> To: gnome-shell-list
> Subject: Thoughts on the left hand sidebar
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>
> I've been trying out gnome-shell today, and I must say that the
> concepts and designs behind it are all very good. I just thought that
> I'd like to voice my opinion on the left hand sidebar, as it is the
> only thing I don't particularly like. In the attached screen-shot, I
> have outlined in blue an area of the desktop which is currently
> unused. I believe this is because the sidebar is
>
> 1. Claiming the whole vertical space that it occupies,
> and
> 2. Is not overlapping with current windows.
>
> To me, that empty space looks like a  waste of desktop space, which
> could be used for something else. I have thought up a couple of
> solutions that could remedy this problem:
>
> 1. Expand the functionality of the sidebar, so it has enough
> interactions to fill up a whole sidebar, that stretches the height of
> the desktop
> 2. Integrate the functions that the sidebar carries out into either
> the top or bottom toolbar, thus allowing for the sidebar to be deleted
> altogether
> 3. Make the sidebar hide away off screen when not being used, but pop
> back on when the mouse nears the left hand side of the screen. This
> would allow windows to stretch the whole width of the desktop.
>
> These are just my ideas on how gnome-shell could be improved, and I
> would love to hear some feedback on them.
>
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