Re: Gnome 3: Too much space wasted

[Robert Park <rbpark exolucere ca>]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Hoang Le <linux lehoang gmail com> wrote:
> Gnome 3 is a great leap. I definitely love it: clean, smart and
> recognizable. I really appreciate that
> But does anyone notice is that it wastes too much space? To me, all  margins
> seem to be big. As a developer, I would like to have more screen space for
> working or even reading, what I can have with windows but haven't had with
> Gnome. Yes, I'm using Gnome 2 with some customization but still I want to
> reduce those margins even more. I don't expect to fix this immediately but I
> hope it would be considered seriously in the future.

You should try this:

Go to the Universal Access settings, change the font size combobox
from "normal" to "small". All the margins are specified proportionally
to the font size, so suddenly everything is tiny. No more wasted
space!

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