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

[Matthew Weier OPhinney]

-- Artem Vakhitov <artem_vakhitov at pisem.net> wrote
(on Sunday, 29 June 2003, 05:41 PM +0400):
> Hi,
> 
> Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> 
> >Hey,
> >
> >On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 16:24:06 +0400
> >Artem Vakhitov <artem_vakhitov at pisem.net> wrote:
> >>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?

I can add another one -- what about those not running xfdesktop...?

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Matthew Weier O'Phinney
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