start menu request (Was: Re: reporting for duty)

[Artem Vakhitov]

Hi,

Jasper Huijsmans wrote:

>Hey,
>
>On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 16:24:06 +0400
>Artem Vakhitov <artem_vakhitov at pisem.net> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I'm new to the list. Since I installed XFCE 4 beta 1 it became my 
>>desktop of choice! One little question: is it ever planned to have a 
>>panel applet a-la Start button? Maybe it's not in line with XFCE 
>>philosophy, but this thing is nice to have -- not to use it often
>>(this is what we have launchers for), but to have an overview over all
>>installed applications.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Well, anyone could write it, but I'm not going to. I would prefer to
>have that available in the desktop mouse menu.
>
Yes, this would be nice too. But you see, the panel is always accessible 
(unless you bring it down to normal or bottom layer -- but why?), and 
the desktop is not (if you have many windows). So it seems to me that 
the button on the panel makes more sense usability-wise. Any additional 
considerations I didn't take into account?

Regards,
Artem Vakhitov