idea for panel configurator

[edscott wilson garcia]

El mié, 02-07-2003 a las 10:56, Jasper Huijsmans escribió:
> On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 17:44:50 +0200
> Benedikt Meurer <Benedikt.Meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 02, Jul 2003, edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi everybody, Jasper in particular,
> > 
> > Hey Edscott,
> > 
> > > To configure the panel with the applications and drawers is a rather
> > > lengthy procedure involving many clicks and many popup dialogs. I
> > > was thinking of something along the line of the xfapps branch in
> > > xffm, where the special new (and not yet used) treeview dragdrop
> > > feature could be used to change main drawer positions or to move an
> > > application from one drawer to another. Further, new applications
> > > could be added by normal drag'n'drop from any fm (even xffm). And
> > > further still, additional branches where the gnome and kde filemenus
> > > would be represented in tree form to make drag'n'drop possible from
> > > there. This would entail removing the xfapps branch from xffm and
> > > wiring it up as a smaller and separate application with these
> > > extended features. What say? Crazy? Usefull? 
> > 
> 
> Interesting at least ;-) I have thought about something like this, it
> may even be in the TODO file.
> 
> > That would fit nice into the picture, since we want to use freedesktop
> > menu spec for the panel in xfce 4.2. IMHO we should add this to the
> > TODO list.
> > 
> 
> Well, that's a definite maybe as far as I'm concerned. Might be 4.4, and
> the goal should be to get some generic desktop file handling, which may
> or may not be used by the panel. I do like the idea, but I'd first like
> to see how easy or hard it will be to implement.

I don't know about the freedesktop standards, but if we encapsulate the
settings stuff in a library the transition (@4.4) could be done
transparent to applications.

> 
> > > ps. I'm talking 4.2, of course, and it would require the load and
> > > save settings part of the panel to be compiled into a dynamic
> > > library to enable maintainability.
> > 
> > We should even move more parts of the panel to a dynamic library to
> > make plugin writers life easier :-)
> > 
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> 	Jasper
> 
> PS
> The amount of new ideas popping up, to me suggest we must work extra
> hard to get a stable release out as soon as possible. Apparently, it
> is getting boring ...

I all for respecting the july 15 deadline, so that CVS can move on to
4.1. 

Edscott


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