[Goodies-dev] Panel plugins have a fixed size in trunk

[Samuel Verstraete]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:16:47 +0200
"Nick Schermer" <nickschermer at gmail.com> wrote:

> >From now on the plugin size is fixed in trunk. This means the plugin
> cannot increase the panel size anymore and will be cutoff when it is
> bigger.
> 
> I know some developers are not going to like this, 

I'm really happy with it :) of course i'm not a dev.

> but really, you
> have to live with it. The reason is easy: some plugins use the panel
> size to, for example, calculate the icon size. If an other plugin
> increases the real size of the panel, this technique becomes useless.
> Using the allocated size might result in loops (ask Samuel ^_^),
The movie is still online: http://merlin.ugent.be/xfce/MVI_0774.AVI

gr,S. 

>  so
> this is the best solution for (almost) everyone.
> 
> Greets,
> Nick and Jasper
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