Dou you want the Bubuntu panel ? 2008/4/29 Sumit Agarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On Apr 29, 2008, at 9:42 AM, Steph wrote: > > > * The animated, "live" wallpaper : it'a good idea, as long as it doesn't > use more than 5% of CPU or GPU (better), and if this is realized, we have to > check if it's really that eye pleasant. Animation is cool, yes, but really > unobtrusive. > We could try to reproduce a feature of the Sony Ericsson > <http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/mobilephones/overview/s500i?cc=fr&lc=en>S500I > phone<http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/mobilephones/overview/s500i?cc=fr&lc=en>, > wich changes its wallpaper along the day. My girlfriend has one, it's really > beautiful, and not stressing at all > > > The a first proposition for Intrepix : what about increasing the size of > both gnome panels ? The default, lowest size is 24 pixels, and setting it at > 32px produces a much pleasing effect. A pleasing desktop shouldn't force > user to squint to see what's written. Those who have a bad vision would be > glad. Technically, I don't know if this increase of panel size causes some > problems with window display, if anybody can tell me more about this...And > then, we should __definitely__ find a gnome panel background, or anything > but delete this stupid grey color. > > > 5% CPU utilization is too high, in my opinion. GPU certainly would be much > better. Remember that more and more people are using Ubuntu on laptops, and > even desktop users are becoming concerned about energy usage. For these > reasons whatever dynamic desktop solution we have must not interfere with > the CPU going into power-saving cycles. Even a very mild constant CPU load > keeps the CPU awake much more than is necessary. > > I do agree on making the panel (yes, singular) bigger. And, as you might > also assume, I am for eliminating one of the panels. The top panel in > particular has lots of wasted space. We need to find an acceptable way to > either 1) combine both panels or 2) make proper use of the top panel. The > only sensible use I can find for the top panel is for it to assume menubar > functions from GTK apps (a la Mac style). Of course, this is far from > universal in the Linux world and would break in such common apps as Firefox > and OpenOffice. > > My vote is for a larger singular panel. > > -Sumit > > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > >
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