Idea about extended menus

[Dmitry DELTA Malykhanov]

Hi,

CDE-like icon box? That could be a solution. Like I used to say: there
is nothing wrong with keeping XFCE as close to CDE as possible, because
CDE is probably the best desktop environment ever (in terms of usability).

BTW, as far as I know CDE simply starts dtfile to show the icon box,
which Joe was talking about. So, maybe that shouldn't be a feature of
panel, but rather xftree. For example, for KDE/GNOME menus all we have
to do is to have xtree open the /usr/share/apps dir (or whatever it
is, I don't have KDE/GNOME). Of course, xftree should uderstand how to
display *.desktop files. Edscott, what do you think?

And back to the sub-menus. Though I still think that having 80 apps in the
panel menus is not sane (this is definitely not a typical number of
frequently used apps), I can't say that I hate the concept of (somehow)
nested menus. Actually I hate the idea of extra menus appearing of the
screen. But sub-menus which won't take extra space may be good. Something
like this:

first level:         when you click on <submenu link>:
                     (this is the same menu with different items)
                          +--------------+
 +--------------+         | * subitem 3  | click
 | *  item 3    |  click  !<submenu link>! -----> (and so on...)
 |<submenu link>|  -----> | * subitem 2  |
 | *  item 2    |         | * subitem 1  |
 | *  item 1    |  <----- |<"back" link> |
-----/\-----------  click -----/\-------------
   +----+                    +----+
   ! i  !                    ! i  !
   !  i ! XFCE Panel         !  i ! XFCE Panel
   +----+                    +----+
------------------        --------------------

I can try to prepare some "proof of the concept" code...

What do you think?


On 29 Mar 2002, Joe Klemmer wrote:
>
> 	I forgot to mention in my initial reply to Peeter's post that I like
> the idea for only one level of submenus.
>
> 	What I'd really like to see is the ability to have a button/icon on the
> panel be able to open a window of related icons of programs.  The way
> CDE does it.  i.e. you click on the configuration icon on the mail panel
> (you know the one with the little icon that has a pallet, moue, "T" &
> window buttons in it) and a window would open with a set of icons in it
> that ran all the config type programs (xfpager, xfmouse, xfsound,
> backdrop, xfgnome, gfx. conf, screensaver, etc.).
>
> 	This would be my much preferred way of nesting things.  Yes, I know,
> it's the way CDE does it but I never thought there was anything wrong
> with it in the first place.
>

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