I completely agree that the horizontal junk across the top of GNOME is a horrible waste of space. But...
> For a long time, the looks of macOS, and therefore the looks of elementary OS fascinated me. I found the dock elegant and the black bar at the top a needed bad.
> At least until I realized how wasteful this desktop paradigm is, as most of our screens, including TVs, laptop screens, and computer displays are horizontally wide.
Surely he knows that the dock can trivially be set to be vertical, right? Right?
> The top panel in macOS makes at least some sense due to their well-implemented global menu system. But what about applications that do not have menus? In that case, the top panel is just in the way of content.
Almost all applications of consequence have menus in MacOS. I guess a few /Applications/Utilities programs maybe...
> For a long time, the looks of macOS, and therefore the looks of elementary OS fascinated me. I found the dock elegant and the black bar at the top a needed bad.
> At least until I realized how wasteful this desktop paradigm is, as most of our screens, including TVs, laptop screens, and computer displays are horizontally wide.
Surely he knows that the dock can trivially be set to be vertical, right? Right?
> The top panel in macOS makes at least some sense due to their well-implemented global menu system. But what about applications that do not have menus? In that case, the top panel is just in the way of content.
Almost all applications of consequence have menus in MacOS. I guess a few /Applications/Utilities programs maybe...