Possible panel tweaks (Was: Re: Random thoughts about release)

[Juraj Ziegler]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:22:50PM -0700, Ric wrote:
> "Volume Control" does not need an icon(the "volume control"
> slider is enough) _or_ the item should be called "Mixer".  

I see two reasons in favor of the icon. Imagine you have the CPU load
meter running. It uses the "same" slider. The only way to tell those two
apart without any icons or text would be 
a) remember which one is which
b) wait for one of them to change by "itself". This might not work, as
the Volume plugin reacts to mixer changes done by other programs.
c) click and check whether the volume has changed or you clicked on the
CPU load meter.

None of these workarounds is intutive or ergonomic. Actually, I agree
with the rest of your mail. 

The second reason for keeping the icon - the slider alone looks _ugly_
in vertical-mode panel. A vertical bar with lots of horizontal space
around. You can check it by running the CPU load meter plugin, and
deleting the text label. I changed the text label from "cpu" to "cpu
load in order to fill the horizontal space. Yes, I use the panel in
vertical mode. 

(When you look on your monitor/display, there's more space in the horizontal
direction -> more space to waste -> more space for panel and gkrellm
stuff. Also, having +1 line in an xterm is more useful than having +1
column)

> (More: two desktop switchers in the same panel? ;  2 pagers
> in the same panel? 

Do you consider it an problem? I consider it an option I'll never use,
but someone else might. Don't take it away just because you don't need
it.

[e]

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