Re: [Usability] Reasoning behind default panel setup?

[Piotr Usewicz <piotr layer22 com>]

Sebastian Rittau wrote:

>[I really enjoyed your description of the discussion culture on this
>list, Alan.]
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>On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 02:22:36AM +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
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>>As for me to be honest I tend to use a single panel at the bottom of the
>>screen, with a menu on the bottom left corner.  (I change things around a
>>lot and have used the default Ubuntu setup for quite a while but after I
>>tend to revert back to a single panel after a while.)  I've been using
>>that setup or something a lot like it for a long time and it works for me.
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>Just to give a bit of perspective: I'm using only a top panel, since
>this feels more "natural" to me. I think panel placement is one of the
>cases of a "preference" (as opposed to an unnecessary and possibly
>intrusive "setting"). This shouldn't prevent us from using a sane
>default, though.
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> - Sebastian
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Also, remember that having more space for windows on a normal 1024x768
display is a priority.

Peter