Comment by sigmoid10
8 days ago
The gnome window title bars are obnoxiously thick and useless by default tho. I've found that Unity or even just Windows like styling in Gnome is a lot more respectful to your screen real estate.
8 days ago
The gnome window title bars are obnoxiously thick and useless by default tho. I've found that Unity or even just Windows like styling in Gnome is a lot more respectful to your screen real estate.
I like the Gnome 2 title bars (Mate). Gnome wasn't always that bad.
Yes, Gnome looks very odd because of that.
That is a tradeoff that makes it nice when you have a convertible laptop.
I wish it was simply configurable from the settings dialogs.
Could it switch? I think windows has a “tablet mode” which activates when you “convert” your laptop. Not sure how well it works in practice, though.
I honestly don't know if there is a standardized way to pass the information or if it depends on the brand. I remember in the earlier version of gnome I had on my lenovo yoga the visual keyboard would popup on most text box but not on firefox which obliged me tolo use Gnome Web / epiphany when in tablet mode but they sorted it out later. I think there wasn't a tablet mode per se but I had used gnome tweak or an extension to have the accesibility options easy to access and enable the visual keyboard but it may have been mpre automatic later. I am saying all this out of memory because that computer died 2 years ago and I didn't use the tablet mode enough to replace it with similar one.
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It definitely needs improvement but for touchscreens it is good.
Luckily, 95% of Linux devices actually have touchscreens.
The sad bit is where you realize that GNOME is typically only found on the other 5%.