Minor XFce history lesson (was: Re: panel iconify buttons)

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Hello Joe,

On 21 Sep 2002 19:34:56 -0400
Joe Klemmer <klemmerj at webtrek.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 20:57, Joakim Andreasson wrote:
> 
> > On a serious note, some people use XFce because they like the CDE.
> > And the CDE has some good ideas, besides the difficulties of
> > configuration and some other clumsiness. Why shouldn't XFce
> > implement the good ideas from CDE and let go of the bad ones?
> 
> 	That was the basic idea that spawned XFce.  Olivier wanted a
> CDE'like GUI and, initially, wrote a panel that ran on top of fvwm. 
> This was back when XFce was built from XForms (which is where the name
> came from).
> 

As someone who never used CDE I'm always guessing what the good things
of CDE are that we want to keep. So that's why I ask these questions
sometimes.

> 	Some of us COB's like XFce because it can be very CDE looking
> and feeling yet is not weighed down by the bloat and junk that CDE
> has. I, personally, think that XFce is so much more than CDE ever was
> (yet, strangely enough, everything that CDE wanted to be).  I've only
> seen very few things that CDE does than XFce doesn't and most of those
> are cosmetic.
> 

So about this iconification. I don't mind having it there, but I was
wondering about its usefulness. The main function of the panel is quick
access to programs, right? So if you iconify the panel you lose that
aspect. If the panel is in the way, or takes too much screen real-estate
wouldn't a root menu be more appropriate?

> 	FWIW, I believe that I was one of the first people to use XFce
> 	back in
> the prehistoric days.  Now I am just here to disagree with everything.
> ;-)
> 

Please do, it's important to keep us young folks going in the right
direction ;-)

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