launcher only icons

[Andrew Conkling]

> From: andy <tireseas at onetel.com>
> Date: 2004/07/19 Mon PM 02:44:41 EDT
> To: XFCE general discussion list <xfce at xfce.org>
> Subject: Re: launcher only icons
> 
> > Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> > 
> >> Tim Holmes wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> The panel is or can be set up to have only icons for the lauchers.  
> >>> Can the popup menus also be set to behave this way?
> >>>
> >>> I would like to also have only icons on the popup part of the menu, 
> >>> including the "+" at the top of the popup.
> >>>
> >>> Sorry if this is an obvious question.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I'm afraid that is not possible. I don't really see the advantage 
> >> either, actually. Why do you want that?
> >>
> >>     Jasper
> > 
> 
> Being of a recent conversion to Xfce-4 from the 3.8 series, I think you 
> may be right. I don't know if this is what you mean, but a picture such as:
> 	   _________
> 	  |   /\   |
> 	  |  /  \  |	popup menu
> 	  |   ||   |
> 	--------------------------------------\
> 	 ____/\____	menu launcher	      /
> 	 |	  |			      \
> 	 |	  |			      /
> 	 |	  |	icon		      \	panel
> 	 |________|			      /
> 					      \
> 	--------------------------------------/
> 
> 
> Is what came to mind when I read your post.
> 
> This would be different from the menu launcher being next to an upwards 
> arrow, which saves space on the panel either for more launchers (like 
> the Gnome desktop file drawer thingy) or for the minimalist look.
> 
> Actually, here's a pic of my old desktop under Xfce-3.8.18. I had the 
> panel at the top for a while, but it got a little frustrating up there 
> for me ergonomically so I relocated it to the bottom of the screen. But 
> anyway, the point is the menu launchers _above_ the icon which doesn't 
> take up as much room. This is what I was trying to get at in the pic above:
> 
> http://web.onetel.com/~ahimsa/ImageSrc/screens.png

Have you taken a look at the Panel settings?  You can adjust the "Popup Position" property for where you want the arrows to be placed.

And, for what it's worth, I think Tim is asking about *removing the text* from any launchers in a popup menu, not about the arrows at all.  I think.