Expand option in tasklist (xfce4-panel, svn)

[Biju Chacko]

Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Stefan Stuhr schreef:
> 
>>ons, 11 01 2006 kl. 20:09 +0100, skrev Jasper Huijsmans:
>>
>>>Hmm. Like stefan said, the option makes the taskbar take all
>>>available 
>>>space, but only if the panel is in full width mode.
>>>
>>>At least this indicates a problem with the wording. Maybe someone has
>>>a 
>>>suggestion? At least I could add a tooltip 'Expand when panel is
>>>using 
>>>the full width of the screen' or something. 
>>
>>I think the best solution would be a panel plugin API addition; a way to
>>get panel settings for the panel that contains the plugin. Also, a new
>>signal would be needed, for notifying plugins about panel setting
>>changes, providing the changed setting name and new (and maybe old?)
>>value. Alternatively, there could simply be made a way to get the Full
>>Width setting, and a signal for changes to the Full Width setting. But I
>>like the idea about a more generic way to get - and be notified about
>>changes to - panel settings.
> 
> 
> Unless there are more cases where this is useful I really don't want to 
> expose any more information to the plugins or add yet another signal.
> 
> Do you see any other uses for this?

What about orientation? How will a plugin react when the orientation of 
the panel changes?

-- b