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View Poll Results: Do you use a panel on the bottom or top?
my monitor is 16:10, but even so i've gotten used to a 2-windows-side-by-side layout for most use cases, and i currently use a top panel.
i'm always interested in vertical panels but i've never really found one that suits me, both design- and functionality-wise... (i need to see both the currently playing song and a clock even when windows are maximized).
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That depends, I either use top, bottom or both, the latter being my most common setting.
I very rarely use side panels, but that might happen too, especially when running VirtualBox VMs in seamless mode so having multiple desktop environment competing on my screen.
Most if not all polls should really have a "none of the above" and possibly an "all of the above" choice...
Yes Linustalman, vertical left and other across top, no vote from me, as no left or right... rofl, too many options in linux, bit like tea, use to be black or with milk, now its, herbal, black, chia etc etc(a bit like linux)... :-)
Yes Linustalman, vertical left and other across top, no vote from me, as no left or right... rofl, too many options in linux, bit like tea, use to be black or with milk, now its, herbal, black, chia etc etc(a bit like linux)... :-)
Hi wraithe, thanks for commenting anyway. Don't forget red berries tea - it's lovely. :-)
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Originally Posted by wraithe
too many options in linux
"Too many" is better than "not enough" although that for that specific question, Windows also allows its panels (a.k.a taskbars) to be located at the top, bottom, left or right sides of the screen.
When I worked support, from time to time our programmers would get on the phone with customers (the company's attitude towards support was unique in my experience). To do that, the programmers would come into the support office and use the support office's computers and phones.
Note that this was before wide-screen monitors.
One of our programmers would always leave my computer with a big Windows taskbar (that's Windows for "panel," for those who may not know) on the right side of the screen.
Frosted my cake every time. (I never complained, because we really appreciated that the programmers would go so far out of their way to help our callers.)
Just as file tabs are on the top file folders, panels belong on the top of the screen.
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