I've never liked any Show-Desktop icon that I've ever seen in any operative system. For years I've used some Windows 7 icon that I colored orange, but I've never liked that one much either.
Finally I decided to make my own. First I customized some green wallpaper so that the Ubuntu Mate logo became somewhat bigger, then I over-sized my panel to 140 something. After that I just took a screen shot of a desktop with a clearly visible logo and a more or less visible panel, scaled it down and replaced the old one. It doesn't really look like a Show-Desktop icon like we expect it to look, but I know what it is and I like it:
Very much, yes. Unity seemed very promising but appeared to be an illogical Windows 7 clone. Windows at least has a start menu. Then there’s that thing, nothing can be changed or even turned off.
Also, Unity absorbed some good Gnome features like like menu and/or window buttons displayed in panel. This has been an ongoing project of mine for many years, saving screen space. So without any of this… How do I organize the Mate environment? I’d already realized that there’s place for all things I need in one single panel. I just don’t want the windows displayed like Windows windows-windows in the panel. But I I actually found a panel dock, rare stuff nowdays…
This single panel is ideally vertical, saving as much vertical space as possible. I have to make it rather broad to display the watch, but the icons are still small enough to be discrete (not like in the picture that I use for icon).
Any way, I think I should have a big cursor in the picture instead of that pencil. Then perhaps one folder somewhere.
