[subscriptions] Re: Ok, I know this was touched on before..

[Olivier Fourdan]

Cool :D

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 00:18, Lionel Laratte wrote:
> Well, I'll throw my hat in the ring and say that I think maybe the
> iconbox should have an option to show text (the name of the app) under
> the icon just to help differentiate between minimized apps.  I'm not a
> programmer so I don't know how hard that is to do.  I imagine it would
> also look somewhat elegant, if I may go so far.
> 
> In other news, my wife came back from her business trip over the weekend
> with the Linux laptop.  She used Xfce and was productive with it.  Her
> only complaint: I had loaded an AbiWord rc and it did some weird things
> a couple of times.  However, she said the laptop was "peppy" and helped
> her.  Thanks again, Xfce crew.
> 
> Lionel
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xfce-bounces at xfce.org [mailto:xfce-bounces at xfce.org] On Behalf Of
> Tim D. Lane
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 3:49 PM
> To: 'XFce is a lightweight desktop environment for various UNIX
> systems.'
> Subject: RE: [subscriptions] Re: Ok, I know this was touched on before..
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> On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 23:56 Biju Chack wrote:
> 
> >I'm not the maintainer of the iconbox, but I think I can answer for if
> I
> >said 'NO!'. If an application doesn't set a proper icon, it's a bug in
> the
> >application. Why should *we* fix somebody else's bug?
> 
> *We* should not fix somebody else's bug, but we do need to be aware of
> the problems or limitations of such applications.  The usability of an
> iconbox is severely limited when several icons appear the same.
> Obviously, there has to be some means of differentiating between the
> icons.
> 
> >You should realise that each additional line of code that we add
> produces
> >one more place where a bug could occur.
> 
> Conversely, adding a needed line of code may make the application more
> robust. :)
> 
> >Increasing the size of the code
> >just makes it more difficult to maintain.>
> 
> True, but the overriding question is whether or not the additional code
> is necessary or preferable to accomplish the intended objective.  In
> this particular case, I suspect the code and database necessary to
> implement alternative icons would add too much overhead to the system,
> which would be contrary to the Xfce objective.  OTOH, a popup tool-tip
> with the name of the program would solve the usability problem with
> minimal additional overhead.  Omitting the tool-tip, or a similar
> solution, would make the iconbox of little value.
> 
> Just my two-cents (substitute any manner of coinage) worth. :)
> 
> Tim Lane
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