Re: [Usability] How to make GNOME better for Netbooks?

[Dokuro <dario soto gmail com>]

ubuntu uses 2 interfaces, the basic regular gnome and another that i
do not remember the name, basically is a semi transparent menu that
fills the screen and lets you choose the most used programs with big
icons.

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Calum Benson <Calum Benson sun com> wrote:
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> On 10 Mar 2010, at 10:32, Valent Turkovic wrote:
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>> Do you have some examples and guidelines how to customize GNOME for Netbooks?
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> If you want some ideas for how to customize GNOME to work on a netbook, it's probably easiest just to try some of the netbook-oriented distros out there, like the Ubuntu Netbook Remix, to see what they do.
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> We also need to encourage developers to write applications that will adapt better to running on netbooks and other non-desktop devices.  This will certainly be one of the themes of the new GNOME Human Interface Guidelines, on which we're just getting started.
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> Cheeri,
> Calum.
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