What happened to my panel?

[Patrick Wiseman]

On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 at 5:05pm, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:

:Patrick Wiseman schreef:
> On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 at 3:52pm, Jean-Franÿÿois Wauthy wrote:
> 
> :Le samedi 17 juin 2006 ÿÿ 09:15 -0400, Patrick Wiseman a ÿÿcrit :
> :> On Debian testing (Xfce version 4.3.90.1) - I just upgraded to this 
> :> version, and my panel is a truncated default.  How do I recover my 
> :> precious setup?
> :
> :Except by hand, you can't. The configuration files and plugin interface
> :have been changed for 4.4.
> 
> Well, that's the kind of lack of consideration I expect from KDE or GNOME 
> developers, not from Xfce.  Oh well, I guess I'll figure it out.
> 

:That makes no sense at all. GNOME and KDE have lots of developers
:(although probably not so much on specific key modules), and have a much 
:larger community, so it is more likely they will have the resources to 
:do this right.

I already apologised for that unnecessary vent; and so I apologise again 
to you personally!  (By way of example of the lack of consideration of the 
GNOME developers, have you seen their new file selection dialog?  It's 
horrible, counter-intuitive, and the old one wasn't broken.)

:Anyway, the new panel is a complete rewrite that was required to provide 
:much-needed features like multiple panels, drag and drop support for 
:adding/moving/removing items and protection against crashing plugins by 
:making them external processes.

I'm liking it - but I was a bit surprised to lose all my earlier settings, 
which I'd spent some time getting the way I liked them.

:Given the available resources it was basically impossible to provide 
:proper conversion from the old configuration to the new configuration. 
:Mind you, I'm not sure it would have been easy to do this at all, even 
:with enough resources.

:Does this mean I should not have done the rewrite? I'd like to think the 
:advantages outweigh the disadvantages, but I certainly could be wrong.

No, and I'm sure you're right.

Thanks for all the good work.

Patrick