Small patch against separator panel-plugin

[Stefan Stuhr]

tir, 17 10 2006 kl. 11:29 +0200, skrev Landry Breuil:
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> 2006/10/17, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org>:
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>         Landry Breuil wrote:
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>         > Jasper, what do you think about it ? Is it a good idea, and
>         if so i'll
>         > enhance the patch to make it configurable through the panel
>         dialog 
>         > (maybe a radiobutton line/handle) ? Or is it nonsense ? :) I
>         know it
>         > won't be in 4.4 because of the stringfreeze, but i only want
>         to discuss
>         > this thing. Should i file a feature request ?
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>         This patch is really not suitable IMHO. A handler is not a
>         separator, it 
>         serves different purposes, in terms of UI. Changing a
>         separator with a
>         handler would be totally confusing and buggy.
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> Yeah, i'm perfectly aware of this... confusing users about UI is the
> worst error one could do. That's why i post this patch only for people
> tracking svn, who want to give a try to it, and see if they like this
> 'new look'. It's only a small detail, but i like it :) 
> And i don't do a personal affair about this btw :)

You could make it a plugin of its own - make it internal, it is IMHO too
simple to waste resources as an external plugin.

That way, people who want it can simply install the plugin, without
patching the existing separator plugin. And it will allow people to use
this plugin at the ends of their panel(s) while still using the normal
separator to separate other plugins.

> Landry

Stefan