Re: Gnome 3: Too much space wasted

[William Jon McCann <william jon mccann gmail com>]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Calum Benson <calum benson oracle com> wrote:
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> On 10 Apr 2011, at 17:34, Hoang Le wrote:
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>> 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.
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> In general I agree there's a lot of tweaking we could do here. My "favorite" example is the amount of space we waste in the System Settings window[1], compared to (say) the equivalent window in OS X[2]. Apart from the spatial inefficiency, I find the GNOME 3 version way harder to visually scan as a result.

Please file a bug.

Thanks,
Jon