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GNOME Desktop top bar - waste of space? (feddit.dk)

submitted 1 month ago by vandsjov@feddit.dk to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hi,

I used to be a big fan of GNOME the way it got out of my way when I didn’t need it and no icons in the bottom to take up desktop space. But the top bar just seems so… useless. It holds a few useful icons in the right side (and you can get extensions to add more) but other than this, it’s just taking up space. After a trip past Xfce I’m now on KDE with the bar in the top.

Have I missed anything about the top bar in GNOME Desktop?

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[–] commander@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's why I favored Unity over Gnome back in the day. The titlebar/basic menu items and close/minimize/expand buttons integrated into the top bar was better. Ya it was probably a copy of MacOS/OSX. Damn good to me in my opinion though. Overall I like Gnome but I'm not sold on it long term. Someday I may try going full time on KDE again. Very likely popos 26.04 with Cosmic I'll try that out on my primary computer when it releases