Hide Screen Furniture

[Richmond Mathewson]

Heaven forfend the thought of over-riding your UI selections PERMANENTLY,
but as it seems perfectly reasonable, under certain circumstances, to make
the Windows Taskbar or the Mac Menubar "take a holiday", it might be
equally reasonable to clear away an end-user's screen clutter so that s/he
can see the UI of the stack/standalone they are using.

I make the EFL stuff for my school to a standardised 1024 x 768
screen size, and that's just fine for the Linux boxes; everything
(meaning the GNOME panel) gets hidden. However, the Mac
version resizes daftly unless there is a 'hide menuBar' in
the preOpen Card script.

I don't know about Klaus's Dock, which he claims tucks away
with hide menuBar; the faithful, old, G3 iMac (running Tiger)
has to have the Dock set to Hide for that to happen.

Personally, while I like the Dock on the Macs, and use both
Avant Window Navigator and Cairo Dock on my Ubuntu
test machine, they do tend to get on my nerves when they
float around over whatever I am trying to do.

Mark Wieder wrote:
> Richmond-
>
> Monday, June 22, 2009, 5:57:04 AM, you wrote:
>
>   
>> Bye-the-bye, there are quite a few 'docks' around for Windows:
>>     
>
>   
>> http://rocketdock.com/
>>     
>
> I've used RocketDock for some time now to make Windows bearable.
> There's a layering option in the Dock Settings that is by default set
> to "always on top", but it can be changed if you so desire. However,
> keep in mind that this *is* a user preference, and if you're
> suggesting that an app should override my UI selections, keep in mind
> that said app will be deleted as fast as my little fingers can do so.
>
>   
You are welcome to clutter up your desktop with whatever launchers,
docks and so on you want. But, if, as a program designer I cannot make
that clutter go away instead of obstructing a clear view of my product
things can get problematic.