xfce4-panel in xffm toolbar

[edscott wilson garcia]

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 09:36, Jesse Wagner wrote:
> Really interesting changes. It would be nice to have the same delayed
> opening of the drawers on the panel itself and the option to get rid of
> the secondary button. Though there is is a slight problem where if you
> move the mouse quickly when you are waiting for the menu to appear, you
> can make it appear clear across the screen. The worst way to fix that
> IMHO would be to limit the movement of the menu, and the best way to be
> to get rid of the movement. To only limit it and not totally get rid of
> it would distroy the flow.

The solution is much simpler. All that has to be done is to specify for
the popup to appear at an exact location. But then the mouse would be
way off where the popup appears. You can't win'em all...

> 
> Oh and on an unrelated note, it would be neat if you could toggle off the
> text window.

No problem. The option should soon appear in CVS as a xfce-mcs option.

> 
> On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 01:29:25 +0000, "edscott wilson garcia"
> <edscott at imp.mx> said:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Yes, panel launchers with drawers, are now present as one of the
> > toolbars of xffm (CVS HEAD, of course). Configuration is that of the
> > xfce4-panel, including the icon theme (even if xffm icon theme differs).
> > Drag and drop is fully functional, and the front element of each drawer
> > is always the last element clicked on (nice feature from AutoCAD). After
> > configuration changes to xfce4-panel, xffm need be restarted (yeah, a
> > bummer, but how often do you change the panel config?)
> > 
> > To open the drawers, press button 1 and do *not* release for a few
> > milliseconds.
> > 
> > The other xffm toolbar has also been revamped and also has some drawers
> > which accept dragndrop. Both can be hidden away to save system
> > resources.
> > 
> > The print icon will probably be removed from the standard xffm toolbar
> > since the functionality is duplicated in default panel configuration.
> > 
> > The apps branch will also be removed from xffm since the "panel" toolbar
> > renders it obsolete.
> > 
> > Opinions and comments welcome. Plugins are not mapped to "panel" toolbar
> > for the present time (what for?).
> > 
> > enjoy,
> > 
> > Edscott
> > 
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