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Idea #3950: Hide Main Toolbar

Written by retj the 9 Mar 08 at 05:57. Category: Look and Feel. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Hiding the toolbar while its not needed would make the windows look very clean and simplified, sorry to bring Vista up but i think that they had a good idea about pressing Alt key to bring the menu bar up and keep it hidden when its not needed. It should be at least able hide it with a button like kde's 4 hide/show menubar button. PD: Im talking about the file, edit, tools,... toolbar, this idea doesnt have anything to do with the panels... If you dont like vista well, compare it to mac os X, compare nautilus with finder and see which one seems to be more clean and simple.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #3950
Written by retj the 9 Mar 08 at 05:57.
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Blackdrive wrote on the 9 Mar 08 at 15:04
What's so wrong with this idea?
Ubuntu already has a top- and bottombar, the menubar in every window is not only ugly, but also a waste of space.


Jerrac wrote on the 9 Mar 08 at 15:59
Before I wiped Vista, that was one feature I detested. So I voted down. I have been using the file, edit, and other menus for years. It's habit, and I have no need to change it.

If you need more space that the panels on top and on bottom take up, turn on auto-hide. Then they will just show up when you need them.

retj wrote on the 9 Mar 08 at 17:39
I really think it would give a look more clean to the windows, its not about removing the toolbar its about hiding it when its not needed just like Blacdrive says its a waste of space.

jespdj wrote on the 12 Mar 08 at 14:37
I do not like the feature in Windows to hide the taskbar.

But I voted +1, because I have a laptop with limited vertical screen space (1280 x 800). It would be good to have an option to automatically hide the top and bottom panels if I'm not using them.

kalmi wrote on the 28 Mar 10 at 02:24
Releated: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/23919/


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