Re: Gnome 3: Too much space wasted

[Calum Benson <calum benson oracle com>]

On 10 Apr 2011, at 17:34, Hoang Le wrote:

> Gnome 3 is a great leap. I definitely love it: clean, smart and
> recognizable. I really appreciate that
> 
> But does anyone notice is that it wastes too much space? To me, all  margins
> seem to be big. As a developer, I would like to have more screen space for
> working or even reading, what I can have with windows but haven't had with
> Gnome. Yes, I'm using Gnome 2 with some customization but still I want to
> reduce those margins even more. I don't expect to fix this immediately but I
> hope it would be considered seriously in the future.

In general I agree there's a lot of tweaking we could do here. My "favorite" example is the amount of space we waste in the System Settings window[1], compared to (say) the equivalent window in OS X[2]. Apart from the spatial inefficiency, I find the GNOME 3 version way harder to visually scan as a result.

Cheeri,
Calum.

[1] http://lwn.net/images/2011/gnome3-system-settings.png
[2] http://files.cyberciti.biz/uploads/faq/2010/01/osx-system-preferences.png

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