[Usability] regaining pixels blingfully

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

A thought for people who like to autohide their gnome panel...
what about autohide for toolbars and/or menu bars?

There are obvious issues I see...
(1) distracting if they unhide when you don't want them to
(2) need a visual affordance so (sighted) users can see they're there
(3) the affordance needs to be large enough to be easy to activate when
    you want to.

I remember that Netscape years ago played with click-to-hide/show
toolbars, but (1) they didn't slide back smoothly, so it was hard to
understand what was happening, and (2) it wasn't the whole toolbar area,
but individual toolbars, so it was confusing.

Any thoughts?

Liam

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