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Idea #14240: Configure Gnome with only one panel by default

bug This idea was marked as implemented the 1 August 11. Available starting Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal.
Written by mikaelstaldal the 9 Oct 08 at 13:08. Related project: Gnome. Status: Implemented
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Gnome should be configured with only one panel by default. Having two panels wastes too much vertical space on the display.

Especially considering that widescreen displays becomes more and more popular.
Tags: desktop gnome

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Selected solution (#2): Move all applets and icons to the top panel
Written by aysiu the 14 Mar 10 at 03:05.
Well, it could as well be the bottom panel, but since a lot of people insist on comparing Gnome to OS X and KDE to Windows, I'll humor them.

It isn't that hard to fit them all in: 1) main menu bar, show desktop button, Firefox icon, window list, notification applet, clock, and trash.

Screenshot sample (not sure how to embed an image here):
http://www.psychocats.net/wpimages/singletaskbaringnome.png

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Aphoxema wrote on the 9 Oct 08 at 14:09
I'm quite partial to the screen at the top and the bottom, and I use 1680x1050. You might be interested in an idea I came up a while ago, http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/13427/

chipbennett wrote on the 9 Oct 08 at 14:35
I'd say this idea has roughly zero chance of being considered...

No vote either way from me, though, as I don't use GNOME.

mikaelstaldal wrote on the 20 Jul 09 at 11:35
Using two panels adds to much administrative debris.

aysiu (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 13 Mar 10 at 20:35
Love this idea. Almost all (if not all) new laptops, netbooks, and standalone monitors come as widescreen ones, so vertical real estate is precious.

aysiu (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 14 Mar 10 at 03:14
By the way, screenshot I attached is from my 1024x576 screen laptop (with only the bottom chopped off). If I can easily fit that much in on a 1024 pixel width, it'd be even easier to fit it on 1280 or 1600 pixels of width.

mikaelstaldal wrote on the 15 Mar 10 at 14:30
You can fit even more if you skip "Applications - System - Places" and access those from the Ubuntu logo menu.

Add "Main Menu" instead of "Menu Bar" to the panel.

kangarooo wrote on the 25 May 10 at 16:39
this is good ide but argument is very ****oo****
what does mean widescreen getsmore popular?
if u think becouse u have seen more advertisments i can tell that they are becouse LG and others made a lot of monitors witch take less space so its easyr to move them all around the world more then any old monitor and becouse they take this advantage and put theyr product everywhere they need to sell it so they advertise.
Also for bussines to make money the more advertised the more purchases. It doesnt mean that on every purchase old big monitor goes away in trash. no they go to some grandma or as first computer for future hackers while they are in 1st grade.
so there are still old big monitors and also flat and not wide monitors couse not every flat screen is widescreen.
i would like to make better idea that with only one move all panel can be integrated in other panel but still everytime doing this would reqiure to reconfigure placement so it would take the same or more clicks then moving all from one panel to another one by one and also that would take more code lines witch would take more resources of cd and synaptic servers and time while there are bigger problems to put time in to solute them ;)
Remember right click on item in panel and move and click where u want it.

kangarooo wrote on the 25 May 10 at 16:41
also i just tryd and all i needed to move was just task bar to top and top panel to down. now it look like windows :)
and panel2 i removed.
also u can put autohide.

Vahan Harutyunyan (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 1 Aug 11 at 16:06
Unity in Ubuntu 11.04
Marking "Implemented".


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