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| giff gill (giffgilll-deactivatedaccount) wrote Re: unity breaks fullscreen tab on top (Fitts's law) | #2 |
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The difference with Unity is that the space at the top is actually free and tabs could be put there.
The GNOME top panel always houses the same OS level functionality no matter what application is active. The Unity panel is dynamic and fills itself with whatever menu functions the active application exposes. Chromium does not have a menu bar by default. So the panel is filled with a placeholder menu that isn't actually needed.
It's not technically possible today, the browsers needed to be patched and some indicator-tabbar function would have to be written but it is possible from an interface design point of view.
Second difference: GNOME top panel is an option, it can be removed without loosing functionality (see the layout in mint or opensuse). Unity forces one to use a top panel.