On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 04:37:23AM -0400, Christian Schaller wrote: >> I don't think this is true. My laptop doesn't have a high-resolution monitor and >> Adwaita works well. That said with the move to Headerbars there amount >> of wasted space should become tiny: >> http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2014/01/13/client-side-decorations-continued/ > > Some of this is a matter of preference. On my 1366x768 travel laptop, the > vertical whitespace used on those headerbars is a lot more than I'd put up > with if I had the choice: I'd squeeze the bar down to the height of the > buttons, and the buttons themselves to much closer to the height of the text > and icons they contain. Those icons/text look to be about 12 pixels high, > and the entire bar 48 pixels high — 4× what is necessary. > > On a monitor with lots of space, this looks nice. On a constrained display, > it feels wasteful — even if the minimal version would be uglier and harder > to get used to, it would be nice to have as an option. Agreed here, especially if you then add a tab bar underneath that like gedit/epiphany as they also have lots of whitespace above/below the text. Peter -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
