Status of xfce4

Joe Klemmer klemmerj at webtrek.com
Sun Feb 9 19:03:25 CET 2003


On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 23:46, Biju Chacko wrote:

> > Second thought is what about an aoutohide-function for the panel?
> > The two desktop-biggies have this and I like the space I save on my 
> > laptops display.
> 
> I'm not sure how this would work. Unlike GNOME/KDE the xfce panel is not
> fixed against the edge of the screen. I'm not saying it's a bad idea,
> I'm just saying that it may be rather odd, especially when the panel is
> placed away from a screen edge. In contrast, the taskbar *does*
> implement autohide.

	I haven't said this in a LONG time but here's as good place as any.  I
am against autohide.  It's disruptive, actually, and I agree with Biju
that the xfce4 panel doesn't lend itself to this kind of behavior. 

	Oh, and I'm also against Chuck being against this, too.

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