Re: please reduce vertical space by adding two Unity features



Dash Hotkeys[1] is an extension that does that. I think there are other similar ones too (extensions.gnome.org)

[1]: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/413/dash-hotkeys/


On 24 February 2014 09:50, <gaomb1 openmailbox org> wrote:
Thanks for the reply!

One other thing I desperately miss from Ubuntu is being able to use keyboard shortcut Super+1-9 to switch between applications. Does GNOME have a quick, fast way to switch between apps using keyboard other than ALT+TAB?

In Ubuntu, I park all my fav apps in Ubuntu Launcher so I always know their number by heart. Being able to use Super+1-9 in GNOME-Shell would be so awesome! The apps that show in the Activities Side-Bar of GNOME-Shell should correlate with Super+1-9 shortcut.

Any chance GNOME-Shell could get this feature? It would make using GNOME-Shell a lot more enjoyable & efficient for me.




On 2014-02-22 19:04, Florian Müllner wrote:
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 11:54 PM,  <gaomb1 openmailbox org> wrote:
Can GNOME-Shell please adopt two features:

1) merge titlebars into the top-bar when windows are maximized.

The currently followed pattern for GNOME applications is to not use a
separate titlebar, but merge it with the main toolbar. This should
have the exact same space benefit for maximized windows (no additional
vertical space used for the titlebar), but also have the same effect
for non-maximized windows.
For "old-style" windows with normal titlebars, there is no plan to
merge decorations and top bar I'm afraid (and it has been suggested[0]
several[1] times[2] already[3]), though the behavior can be
implemented (and as far as I know has been) with extensions.



2) adopt global menus or Ubuntu's upcoming LIM app menus.

I'm afraid this is very unlikely to happen. In contrast to Ubuntu,
GNOME is in no position of modifying any toolkits other than GTK+ - so
even if we wanted to do this, it would not work for many apps
(Firefox, LibreOffice, Skype, Eclipse, all KDE apps to name just a
few). It is also worth noting that many applications are moving away
from traditional menubars altogether - many GNOME applications use
menu buttons nowadays, just as Chrome and Firefox have been doing for
a while now.

Looking at recent screenshots[4], I don't see much vertical space
wasted - the titlebar has a fair bit of spacing, but still takes up
less space than the tool- and menubar it replaces. So I'd hope that
you would still at least give GNOME a try seeing how issues with
vertical space are addressed, although differently than you suggest.


Cheers,
Florian


[0] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619770
[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660226
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695399
[3] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705649
[4] http://blogs.gnome.org/nacho/2014/01/15/gedit-has-a-new-face/
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