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The sidebar is a big, ugly, inelegant monstrosity.

All kinds of crap crammed into a large bar that runs across your screen. I don't care if it has transparency, or if it can be hidden. It is a ****ty idea.

A desktop is NOT the control panel of a 747.

OS X's dashboard is a much better solution.

An ideal solution would be to simply have separate widgets that that do not "dock" into a large bar, but which can have transparency effects.

For those of you who use Rainlendar, you know what I mean. Rainlendar is an excellent example of a widget that does the job well, is feature rich, and can be as nondescript and unintrusive as you want.

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I've said this many times before, and people don't seem to get it. Getting a 20" widescreen monitor over a 20" 4:3 is almost always WORSE. With widescreen most of the time it'll be 1680x1050. That gives you 1.76 megapixels. If you get a 4:3 screen, you'll most likely get 1600x1200. That givess you 1.92 megapixels. You lose only 80 pixels on the sides, but you gain 150 pixels of length. Not only that but you get more screen area as 20" widescreen has less surface area as a more squarish screen.

On topic with the Sidebar, I think I'd use it a lot and I find it useful to be able to look at things that I need to at any time. I would probably want it to auto-hide, though.

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I've said this many times before, and people don't seem to get it. Getting a 20" widescreen monitor over a 20" 4:3 is almost always WORSE. With widescreen most of the time it'll be 1680x1050. That gives you 1.76 megapixels. If you get a 4:3 screen, you'll most likely get 1600x1200. That givess you 1.92 megapixels. You lose only 80 pixels on the sides, but you gain 150 pixels of length. Not only that but you get more screen area as 20" widescreen has less surface area as a more squarish screen.

On topic with the Sidebar, I think I'd use it a lot and I find it useful to be able to look at things that I need to at any time. I would probably want it to auto-hide, though.

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It's not completely about extra pixels. I'd personally sacrifice a few pixels in exchange for a widescreen since I prefer the look :)

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The sidebar is a big, ugly, inelegant monstrosity.

All kinds of crap crammed into a large bar that runs across your screen. I don't care if it has transparency, or if it can be hidden. It is a ****ty idea.

A desktop is NOT the control panel of a 747.

OS X's dashboard is a much better solution.

An ideal solution would be to simply have separate widgets that that do not "dock" into a large bar, but which can have transparency effects.

For those of you who use Rainlendar, you know what I mean. Rainlendar is an excellent example of a widget that does the job well, is feature rich, and can be as nondescript and unintrusive as you want.

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Agreed. If I were to use a sidebar kind of thiggie, I'd rather prefer the Enlightenment DR16 approach: window docking. That way you can make any app behave as a sidebar, rather than just having a huge oversized gkrellm clone.

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