xfce Panel and taskbar integration?

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Cool Paul. I'm also Slacker (from Redhat), and XFCEr (from KDE).
IMHO, the most important bargaining points of XFCE are :
* Compare to bloated desktop, XFCE does not require too much resources.
  I have measured it, empty XFCE eat around 30 MB memory, while empty KDE 
eat 60 MB !
  (start from text console). Lighter windows manager such as IceWM or FVWM 
need around 20-30 MB.
* XFCE provides graphical setting and tools, which are lacked from some 
windows managers.
  The tools match the rule of 20% most usefull features to do the 80% tasks.

But back to the topic.
I don't fell so comfortable with the panel size.
The vertical size can be changed (tiny, small, etc), but not the horizontal 
size.
After adding some launcher items, there are shallow empty desktop space on 
the left
and the right of the panel.  I'm sorry to say this, it's look ugly.

I thinks it would be better if we can adjust the panel size to the screen 
width.
Some ideas :
  - separator item with adjustable width.
  - a new spacer item.
  - just provides a new options on the panel setting to resize the panel to 
the screen width.
    The items in the panel can be aligned to the center, right or left.

I hope I'm not asking too much.

Thank you.

















>From: Paul Ladouceur <tipaul at look.ca>
>Reply-To: "XFce is a lightweight desktop environment for various UNIX  
>systems." <xfce at xfce.org>
>To: "XFce is a lightweight desktop environment for various UNIX systems." 
><xfce at xfce.org>
>Subject: Re: Panel and taskbar integration?
>Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 22:19:31 -0400
>
>Olivier Fourdan wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 22:11, Dan Stone wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 12:55, Joe Klemmer wrote:
>>>XFce exists because a group of people want their desktop
>>>experience to be, well, XFce-like -- not because they want to dominate
>>>marketshare ^_^
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Very true.
>>
>>Doesn't mean that we don't pay attention to users though.
>>
>>Sometimes, I do listen but I don't advertise it.
>>
>>Sometimes ppl just want xfce to look/behave like icewm, fluxbox, kde,
>>gnome, etc. All of these are good free projects, why not using them
>>instead of asking for a desktop that would do just *everything" the
>>others do?
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>
>I'll follow you wherever you're XFCE project is going... I've read most of 
>the 4.2 and future ideas. Your philosophy meet's 99.99% of mine (.01% I 
>Can't explain... Just to be safe as always! hahaha).
>
>If your goal is to have the best XFCE desktop, then YOU CONVINCED ME! I 
>always had the "mentals" of most LINUXER that use Gnome or KDE and want to 
>have the MOST of the feature and are willing to be ahead of the others...
>
>But this can't be true for a TRUE WORKING ENVIRONMENT which keep you 
>working on your "jobs" and not on the Desktop...
>
>I have never felt as a marketing person as right now! Thanks for showing me 
>the RIGHT-WAY! (The way I took when I abandonned Windows!!) :-)
>
>I'm now a full XFCE follower... As i've done with Slackware since it's 
>version 9... (But this subject doesn't belong here)
>
>Regards,
>Ti-Paul.
>
>
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