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Re:Windows needs a change in priorities by GekkePrutser on Sunday March 20, 2022 @11:29PM (#30749881)
Gnome has very excessive window borders though. They're so big they seem to be sized for touch, very wasteful when you don't have a touchscreen.

And it has even less configurability than Windows.. Add-ons don't count because they often break.

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Re:Windows needs a change in priorities by smackeyacky on Sunday March 20, 2022 @11:36PM (#30749922)
I don't mind the big borders, although most of the time I'm using dual 2k screens.

The borders don't seem that much bigger than the ones in Windows 10. As for the extensions, I've been enabling those via extensions.gnome.org and have no problems so far on Buster or Bullseye.

This is the one that makes Gnome useable for me:

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1160/dash-to-panel/

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Re:Windows needs a change in priorities by lproven on Monday March 21, 2022 @01:43PM (#30757300)
Dash-to-panel helps, but it doesn't go far enough for me. It doesn't work well in vertical orientations: for instance, status icons should be arranged in horizontal rows. In a single column they take up far too much space.

Cinnamon suffers from the same problem, FWIW.

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