One of the main irritations I find with Gnome3 is that it takes up more vertical space on a short/wide monitor than necessary, lessening the amount of space I have to view my code or documents.
Unity does this nice thing where the top bar on the window hosts the application menu; or when the application is maximized, the top panel on the screen hosts the application menu as well as the identification string. I consider this to be very graceful design, fully cognizant of the vertical limitations of the short screen and considerate of the user's need to see as much of their work as possible. Gnome3 is not as considerate. The default (I guess, Adwaita theme?) is to show a thick window top bar which provides little value for the space it consumes. There are plugins that try to address this problem, by (for example) hiding the top panel unless the mouse is near, merging the menu with the top panel when the application is maximized, and moving away from the traditional menu bar completely to a set of controls, often placed at the upper right side of the screen. If anyone who is bothered by the same "vertical waste" could offer their solutions I think that would be great. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1687351 Title: Making GNOME really pleasant to use To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-shell/+bug/1687351/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
