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Comment Re:Knew this was going to happen. (Score 2, Interesting) 617

I loved the way the old StarOffice behaved: a toolbar wich adapts to whatever you are doing at that moment. I saw this concept previously at CorelDraw if I recall correctly. Inkscape does also the same. In old StarOffice, it had the problem that sometimes you had several available toolbars active to switch among with an arrow button (that was not nice). Inkscape is almost doing what in my opinion a GUI for that kind of app should do:
1. Several global-use toolbars.
2. One specific-use adaptable toolbar.
3. Dockable dialogs (see Inkscape path/fill properties), for complex and repetitive tasks.
4. Menus for the following reasons: backup of tool-bar options, hierarchical organization, optimal space use, easy keyboard navigation and keyboard shortcuts reminder.
(Inkscape just fails a bit since some dialogs are not dockable yet, but does scroll-docking, side-by-side docking and tabbed docking).
I've never used ribbon thing but, correct me if I'm wrong, they are placed on the top zone, which is not a god thing nowadays monitors tend to be landscape proportions, specially for text-editing. Dockable dialogs are nice in this sense.

Comment Re:Everything works for me (Score 4, Informative) 554

Also, you can add a gnome-panel and drag it to second screen (press ALT and drag and drop it), and then place a window list applet to it: from that moment, each panel shows only the windows residing at that monitor.
Compiz also is pretty well aware of the screens, so you can do scale ("exposé") to only one of the monitors if you wish.

Comment Re:pre-trial ruling (Score 2, Interesting) 323

That is limited to music and films, under the right of private copy, in the same sense that you can share your CDs with your friends -as far as you don't make profit from it-.
You cannot download privative software legally from P2P or whatever (note that you cannot share that software with your friends either).

Not a layer, but a Spanish guy as well.

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