Even autohide taskbars are annoying, I'm using a 10px gnome panel now, and more command-line text search (built into nautilus). A problem with this approach is

Even autohide taskbars are annoying, I'm using a 10px gnome panel now, and more command-line text search (built into nautilus). A problem with this approach is also if I go over to a friend's house that doesn't ever use the search box, I'll have to jump through hoops to even get to the search box, not a good idea. Hiding user interfaces and dynamically adopting them could be a good idea, but it makes the user think more, in an attempt to make them think less. When helping others, uniformity is important. If this site was like this, realizing that I read the whole comment thread before commenting and moving the comment box to the bottom of the page for me, it would be frustrating because I would sometimes scroll up and think I was logged out, etc. (Big problem even when people accidentally remove UI elements from a program such as safari by dragging them off the toolbar.)