Re: Auto hide, title bar, power off, date

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 17:02 +0200, Romain Nichel wrote:
> - auto hide the top bar : that's a must. I've got a netbook. Each
> pixel is useful. I don't need to have this static bar always visible.
> If I need some info (like the time, or the status of my wireless
> connection) I'll be very happy to make the effort of moving my cursor 

-1  App developers need to be able to make some reasonable assumptions
about the environment;  that the title bar is there is one of those.  It
also shows the date an numerous other bits of information that are
globally relevant.

> - power off : my netbook has a dying battery. The last thing I want is
> to put my computer into suspend mode. I like to power it off or
> hibernate it. I've read a lot of things about it, but I'm still
> missing the point of this missing feature ?

Alt + Menu; or there is an extension that adds a Power-Off button [I
think it is the alternate-menu extension?]

> - date : young enough maybe for the title bar but old enough to forget
> the date... I like to have it visible in the top bar. IMHO that was a
> weird choice to get ride of this feature ?!!?!?

Did it go away? It still appears on my top menu bar?

> I could resolve some of those 'problems' with gnome-tweak-and-co,
> except for the auto hide (the script for this is ok but it's quite
> slow) and the title bar size.
> I still think that those features should be directly available in the
> standard Gnome 3.