It surprises me that with widescreens and netbooks the vertical panel is not more commonly utilized. In Gnome it seems very few of the panel add-ons are compatible with a vertical panel in any practical sense. Anyone worked around this to their satisfaction?
Posted Jun 16, 2010, 9:19 PM UTC
I agree with you OP. I think with how GUI design works, tall screen monitors would have been the way to go.
AWN is a great panel for vertical use.
how do you get awn to go vertical?
Right click, click preferences. Orientation: Left or Right.
I tried that by using Drawers. Probably not the best solution, but it was okay.
this works for me
I use a vertical bar/dock on win7 and osx and a horizontal one in ubuntu. Ever since I got used to the "disappear"-behavior the aspect ratio isn't that important anymore, it's more about "where do I put it so it doesn't appear unexpectedly"
I agree with you. Even KDE gets a little bizarro when you use a side/vertical panel, but it handles it better than Gnome right now, IMO.
With widescreen monitors, vertical space is at a premium -- one fun thing I've done (which I personally rather like) is to put a KDE panel on the right, make it fairly wide, and then put the Task Manager there (minimized windows)...which then makes the titles for your minimized windows show up in a very efficient "list" of sorts.
I suppose if you used docbar(x), "main menu" instead of "menu bar", and switched out the standard Date/Clock/Weather applet for one that isn't so long, it could work out rather well.
Yeah, definitely use DockBarX it works great for vertical panels.