Hey all.

I thought to start a new thread to collect together everything we know about the desktop environment and to begin sharing this with each other.

Here's my little contribution to this.

After removing the task navigator, if you edit this file
/usr/share/themes/%theme%/matchbox/theme.xml
and change the status bar height to zero, all apps launch in full screen mode and you'll still see the status bar on the screen.


Pressing the full screen button, all that happens is that the status bar disappears. The screen remains exactly the same, down to the pixel.


First, the icons in the status bar should probably be as minimal in design to still be there but not clutter up the screen.

Second, I'm using the NuvoClear2 theme and I'm not sure why the background for the status bar doesn't remain transparent no matter what height I set it to.

Lastly, it's not technically in full screen I don't think because it remains in windowed mode, with or without pressing the full screen button.

I'll have to look at the theme.xml file a little closer and see if that default window mode can be removed unless you guys think it's happening somewhere else.

But yeah, basically this means you would have a full 800x480 desktop at all times while still having access to the status bar features.