Hide Screen Furniture

[Richmond Mathewson]

Peter W A Wood wrote:
> Dear Richmond
>
>> 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.
>
> I am trying to understand what is the difference between "hiding 
> screen furniture" and using "full screen mode" especially when you 
> appear to be filling the screen on your Linux boxes. I'm sure there 
> must be a difference as somebody would have advised you to "set the 
> fullscreen of the stack to true" but I'm lost.
>
Some 'screen furniture' will float over everything else in the GUI 
regardless.
> I look forward to finding out.
>
> Regards
> Peter Wood
>
>
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