Small panel feature request

[Jean-François Wauthy]

Le mar 20/07/2004 à 21:22, Don Christensen a écrit :
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> > i was bored, and it seemed like a cool idea, so i went ahead and did 
> > it.  also gave me the chance to clean up some menu internals...
> > 
> >    -brian
> 
> Okay, so I've built all the latest code from CVS HEAD for all the apps
> and logged out and back in to assure a clean environment.
> 
> The new menu mechanism works great, pretty much just what I wanted.
> I do have some issues/comments where it could be improved some.  The
> first item I would consider a significant usability improvement; the
> second item seems like a bug to me; the rest would be "nice-to-haves".
> Next time you get tired of working on xfmusic and can't figure out
> what to do with your spare time, you can take an item off this list. :)
> 
>    - It would be helpful to have a button to launch the menu editor from
>      the Xfce Menu properties dialog for the chosen menu file.
>    - (I think this is more for Jean-Francois) In the menu editor, when I
>      right-click on a menu entry, then click outside the popup, the entry
>      seems to get selected as some sort of DnD and attached to my mouse
>      cursor.  This also happens if I select "edit" and then exit the
>      edit popup.  I have to right-click again to "drop" the item.
yes confirmed, it's a bug, never remarked it before. i gonna fix it, i
keep you in touch

>    - It would be nice to have some sort of indication that the button
>      is a "drawer", maybe something like adding a little triangle above
>      the icon (but it would not be a separate clickable area).  I don't
>      know how hard this would be, but it is certainly something I could
>      live without if it isn't close to trivial to do.
>    - The tooltip for the button is "Xfce Menu".  It would be nice if it
>      would use the menu title for the tooltip.
>    - Currently, the menu pops up over the panel and mostly to the right
>      of the menu button.  I think it would look better if it worked more
>      like the launcher menu where it pops up centered over the button
>      and with the bottom of the menu touching the top of the panel (this
>      is, of course, based on having the panel at the bottom of the screen).
> 
> Another issue that is not directly related to the menu (and may not
> even be something you are responsible for) is the icon selector.  It
> would be nice if it could remember where I was the last time I selected
> an icon.  I just created a menu with four vncviewer launchers, and for
> each one I have to navigate from my home directory over into /usr/share/...
> to find the icon I want (which is the same for all four entries).
> 
> Anyway, I want to thank you for adding this feature, it makes my desktop
> that much more comfortable for me.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Don
-- 
Jean-François Wauthy <pollux at xfce.org>
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