Next taskbar generation

[Joe Klemmer]

On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 08:34, Staszyszyn, Marcin wrote:

> 1. enabling taskbar at compilation time in not sufficient. There must be a
> possibility of switching it on/off from setup window. My proposition is as
> follows:
> taskbar is enabled by default at compilation time, but can be completely
> removed from xfce by passing '--disable-taskbar' option to configure script.
> Therefore all binary distributions (primary rpm-based) have taskbar enabled
> by default, but all anti-taskbar xfce users are still able to have xfce
> version not polluted by this resource-wasting feature ;-). Of course if
> taskbar is enabled at compilation time, it can always be switched off from
> setup window. In that case even wide, thin button at the bottom of xfce
> panel doesn't appear.

	Sounds good to me.
 
> 2. new features:
> - custom height of taskbar itself and opening button (maybe proportional to
> xfce size). It sounds good to 1600x1200 monitor users

	Ok.

> - custom minimum size of task button (i.e. button representing a window on
> taskbar). When button must be shrunk bellow that size taskbar area is
> expanded to hold another line of task buttons. You can also set no. of those
> task button lines (like in Windows when resizing taskbar).

	Nice.

> - edit pop-up menu which arises when task button is right-clicked (it's not
> present at all in current implementation). All valid xfwm events can be put
> into that menu (e.g. close, minimalise, maximalise, make [un]stick).

	Sure.  The task bar is "sticky" now and I think it should remain sticky
as the default.

> - GeoShellX / KDE2 behaviour of task buttons i.e. compressing windows with
> the same name to single task button. I was not happy with that behaviour in
> KDE2, so it has to be customizable.

	I don't like this, myself, but that's just my opinion.

> - 'window trash' -- all rarely used windows can be removed from taskbar and
> be accessible by pressing special 'trash' button, presenting pop-up list of
> all 'trashed' windows to chose from. Great possibility to save space on
> taskbar area.

	Good idea but don't call it "trash".  Maybe something like...  Well,
ok, I can't think of anything right now either.
 
> 3. taskbar state must be saved between sessions

	Probably not a bad idea, too.
 
> What do you think of that?

	Overall I like it.

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No, I _don't_ have anything better to do right now.
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