xfce version 3 vs. 4 : missing features?

[Olivier Fourdan]

It is not all that easy.

1) The iconbox has no layout of icons (ie if the icons don't fit in
screen, the iconbox doesn't care and keeps growing)
2) The iconbox has no caption, that makes it fairly useless on the
desktop
3) ths code itself is not very clean IMHO and would need some work. I
think Toby said he was working on a new version
4) icons on desktop would better be implemented with a nice well written
custom home made gtk widget and that's definitely more work than just
cut'n paste from the current iconbox.


Cheers,
Olivier.

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 18:19, edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 09:18, craig.betts at dfrc.nasa.gov wrote:
> > Well personally I'd like to see the icon view for minimized windows come
> > back.  This request is made from several of my users.  I keep XFce3
> > around for this very reason.  Some users said they don't mind changing,
> > but would like to have the ability to change the icon display in the
> > taskbar to help identify the program running (I used this feature in
> > XFCE3, and miss it).  I am using XFce as a replacement for CDE on my
> > Solaris systems, and have even made it look almost exactly like CDE.  My
> > users just love this!
> 
> I see no reason why the iconbox code is not within the xfdesktop code. A
> simple configuration option and presto, xfdesktop maps the icons on the
> pseudo-root window. 
> 
> Oh, I see the reason why not. No one has had the time to do the work.
> Any takers?
> 
> 
> Edscott
> 
> ps. I would like to see the feature but am unfortunately out of time at
> the moment.
> 
> > 
> > Other than that, the new design has been taken-in with open arms.  Its
> > fast, simple and standards based.
> > --
> > Craig A. Betts
> > IT Security Design Engineer
> > Arcata Associates, Inc. - Dryden Flight Research Center - NASA
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> > 
> > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Biju Chacko wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:18:17 +0200, Bob Marcan wrote:
> > >
> > > > Biju Chacko wrote:
> > > > > Edit .xfce4/menu.xml. If you do not have one copy it from
> > > > > /etc/xfce4/menu.xml.
> > > > Tnx, done. Now how can i bound this to MB1?
> > >
> > > This is not possible for now. We may make this configurable later, but there is
> > > no consensus yet to do it. Bug us about it, if you really can't live without it.
> > >
> > > BTW, a tip for people who have a feature that wasn't added -- feel free to bug
> > > us about it. If you have a half-way decent argument we'll *listen* to you at
> > > least. Persistent demands for a change indicate that me may have done something
> > > wrong.
> > >
> > > No guarantees, of course. We want to avoid making XFce4 too complex, so asking
> > > for a config option may not be the best argument. You'll need to convince us
> > > (well, Olivier actually since he takes the final call) that your desired
> > > behavior will be most user-friendly.
> > >
> > > -- b
> > >
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