[ANN] xfce4-taskbar-plugin 0.2.0

Andre Lerche a.lerche at gmx.net
Sun Oct 17 20:31:22 CEST 2004


This is fixed in version 0.2.2 - sorry for any inconviniences. The 
widget with extra space will
be part of the next release.

Andre Lerche wrote:

> Reproducible. Yes there is a reason. Without this check and "Expand to 
> fill screen" the
> xfce-panel handle on the right was not visible on my system. I'll look 
> into it, and yes,
> you get your additional space to access the plugin menu. ;-)
>
> Andre
>
> Juha Kautto wrote:
>
>> I found another feature, which looks like a bug to me:
>> if you do *not* set "Expand to fill screen" and you (re)start panel, 
>> the taskbar plugin is very very tiny.
>>
>> Removing lines 186-187 from plugin_recreate_gui :
>>    if (!GDK_IS_WINDOW(panel.toplevel->window))
>>         return;
>>
>> fixed it for me, but is there a reason for this test ?
>>
>> /Juha
>>
>> Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
>>
>>> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>>
>>>> Juha Kautto wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Andre,
>>>>>
>>>>> Great ! Very usefull.
>>>>>
>>>>> But there is one minor feature which works differently compared to 
>>>>> all other plugins: When you press Button 3 all other plugins start 
>>>>> the standard panel configuration menu. But taskbar plugin starts 
>>>>> that menu only if it is empty or I hit the very narrow border and 
>>>>> usually starts the window action menu instead. On the other hand 
>>>>> button 2 does not seem to have any function. So at least to me it 
>>>>> would be easier if button 2 would raise the window action menu and 
>>>>> button 3 the panel menu. 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> IIRC, the task list widget doesn't let you change the mouse button 
>>>> that brings up the menu.  not is it easy to change which button 
>>>> brings up the panel menu (it may not be possible, actually).  what 
>>>> i'd suggest, is to add a small "grab-handle" type thing to the left 
>>>> edge of the widget, so you have something like this (greatly 
>>>> enlarged):
>>>>
>>>> +--+---------------+---------------+
>>>> |  |               |               |
>>>> |  |               |               |
>>>> +--+---------------+---------------+
>>>>
>>>> so when you right-click on the little vertical bar on the right, 
>>>> you get the panel menu, and right-clicking on the individual task 
>>>> items gives you the window menu.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah, or simply some extra empty space, that would be my suggestion 
>>> as well.
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