OpenOffice is also unusable due to the launcher on the 7 inch original Eee.
On 6 July 2010 04:51, Diego Moya <turi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 July 2010 19:03, Liam Wilson wrote:
> > Now, I know that the titlebar and menu items will be located in the panel
> in the future, which does save a lot of vertical screen space, but
> horizontal screen space in important too, and one major annoyance of mine is
> that Websites now don't fit horizontally on a 1024x600 resolution without
> having to scroll, and I feel that having a auto-hide option, at least, that
> re-appears when the mouse cursor is placed on the left hand edge of the
> screen (like MeeGo), would solve this.
>
> I agree with the auto-hide to save screen space, but having it
> reappear on proximity would be a pain - it shares space with most web
> pages navigation bar, so it would often get in the middle of browsing.
>
> A better option for a hidden bar is the one supported by Firefox
> Mobile ("Fennec"). The button bar is placed just outside the visible
> screen, and it is shown by dragging the screen to the right. This
> could be implemented in Unity with a finger gesture in multi-touch
> screens, or by dragging the panel in mouse or single-touch interfaces.
>
> But alas, the design of the Unity launcher seems to be based on an
> always visible bar. If this is true, it doesn't take the problem of
> 1024px-wide webpages into account.
>
> http://design.canonical.com/2010/06/introduction-to-unity-launcher/
>
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