Re: docklets + usability

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

Damien Sandras wrote:
> 
> I'm also a bit disappointed by the remarks of some people to who I
> showed my Gnome2 desktop for the first time, it is always the same
> remark : "Gnome ressembles more and more to Windows and to KDE". I think
> this is due to the fact that the tasklist applet is at the bottom like
> in Windows. Is there an usability reason for that? Why not place it at
> the top where there is plenty of empty space in the menu panel? 

I'm not aware of any studies that have been done on this, but I can't
think of any reason off the top of my head why it ought to work any
better along the bottom than along any other edge, other than
convention.  (Personally I keep mine in an auto-hiding panel down the
right-hand side of the screen!)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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