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

[Bernhard Walle]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 at 15:57 (+0530), Biju Chacko wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 11:33:12 +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 at 10:26 (+0200), Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> > > On Mon, 30, Jun 2003, Biju Chacko wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I wouldn't like this kind of plugin to be in the default XFce
> > > > config, but it does introduce flexibility that certain people may
> > > > want. With this, and a 'taskbar' panel plugin you could emulate a
> > > > K or gnome panel.
> > > > Ewwwwww! Yuck!
> > > 
> > > I really dislike this idea. We're not going to create another
> > > Gnome/KDE-clone.
> > 
> > 100 % ACK. If someone wants Microsoft Windows, he schould use it, if
> > someone would like to use KDE, he should use it. Same for GNOME. I
> > think the xfce4 panel is very good! 
> > 
> > What we need are more plugins like a CPU usage viewer, network
> > diagram, etc., but not a GNOME-Panel-clone.
> 
> My attitude is slightly different. I feel we should focus on the CDE-ish
> kind of panel we have now. 

ACK.

> It isn't an objective of XFce to do that. However, we have a bunch of
> features we need for various purposes. If people use it in a way we
> don't like, that's hardly our problem, is it?

Yes, if the developement (and quality) of the rest isn't affected.
That's what I meant.


Regards,
Bernhard

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