GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 648374
Compact title bars
Last modified: 2011-06-17 09:01:17 UTC
Forwarded from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698467 "Can the window title bar height please be reduced (this is with the default Gnome 3 theme in F-15 Beta). As is, it is taking huge amount of space and is making previously possible window placements impossible (e.g. for us old timers, the number of terminals on the screen goes down significantly, even with smallest of fonts for the title bar)." I like the bars as they are now, but I admit it might be a problem for some users, especially with small screen resolution (it feels a bit too big indeed on my old ThinkPad X60, which is 1024x768). I think a possible approach would be to have a "compact" variation of Adwaita, with reduced whitespace/padding.
I am the original reporter of the bug and I noticed the problem on an HD+ (1600 x 900) display of a ThinkPad T510. Generally speaking, people like to use their screen real estate for useful things, not window title bar empty space. But yeah, if you wouldn't mind creating a compact theme, that should do it. It'd be easy to switch then. You can also turn the brightness down at the same time, if it's all the same to you. The current theme is a bit too white. All IMHO and all that.
Surely this should just work by default rather than being an option? If you have space to waste then waste it. Otherwise, please don't demand that I go into some setting to unbreak my theme. I'm on a brand-new Thinkpad X220 with 1366x768 resolution and the waste of vertical space is obvious and annoying.
It's been fixed in 3.0.2, hasn't it? At least, the height of title bars has been reduced.
(In reply to comment #3) > It's been fixed in 3.0.2, hasn't it? At least, the height of title bars has > been reduced. Yes, thanks for the follow up.
They could still lose a couple of pixels, IMHO.
Maybe, but designers have chosen that size, and it looks like a good compromise. Beyond the current height, they would really be small. The real solution is to merge them into the Shell's top bar when the window is maximized.
(In reply to comment #6) > The real > solution is to merge them into the Shell's top bar when the window is > maximized. I almost never maximise windows (always multitasking, I'm afraid), so this does nothing for me. As always, IMHO etc.