Small panel feature request

[Jean-François Wauthy]

Le mar 20/07/2004 à 22:06, Jean-François Wauthy a écrit :
> 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
> 
here it comes, i've just fixed it; you'll be able to check it out in a
few minutes when anonymous CVS will be updated. thx for the report

> >    - 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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