Re: Gnome 3: Too much space wasted

[Luke Morton <luke morton internode on net>]

On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 18:48 +0100, John Stowers wrote: 
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Requests for a compact version of Adwiata (the G3 theme) seem to come up
> frequently, and as a user of a netbook I sympathize.
> 
> Does anyone want to volunteer to write a compact version of Adwiata with
> smaller fonts, margins, padding, etc?

Me. I've got a good grasp of gtkrc files and I've been working with CSS
for years.

I'll start by cloning gnome-themes-standard and I'll host my branch on
gitorious, unless anyone thinks I should do things differently.

Luke.