[ubuntu-art] Intrepid Panels

[Sumit Agarwal]

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 S500I phone, 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
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