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

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam whitemice org> wrote:
> 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?

It's a setting.

  $ gsettings set org.gnome.shell.clock show-date true

>> 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.
>
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  Jasper