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elementary / wingpanel

Stylish top panel that holds indicators and spawns an application launcher
https://elementary.io
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Make wingpanel shorter #384

Closed ghost closed 3 years ago

ghost commented 3 years ago

The current wingpanel implementation takes so much precious vertical screen real estate; I would like the height of the wingpanel to be reduced to get more screen real estate especially on laptops where vertical real estate is generally lacking. MacOS implementation seems way more laptop-friendly as the top bar is a bit shorter. Thanks in Advance..

cassidyjames commented 3 years ago

From a screenshot of my wife's work MacBook, it looks like the macOS panel is ~23dp (display pixels, or pixels @1x) tall, while it looks like WingPanel is ~30dp tall in elementary OS 6. Since we use a standard icon size and the icons are pixel-fit, the only thing we could easily do to change the size would be to reduce the vertical spacing around icons, but that would make them feel cramped—I don't think sacrificing the aesthetic balance is worth a vertical space saving of less than 10dp here.