panel dock type broken

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Thanks for your opinion and especially the explanation.

I will try this approach and see how it works out.

	Jasper


On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 02:20:25PM +0200, LiNuCe wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>    If I could give my opinion, I would prefer the second option. Why ? 
> The current XFCE CVS code set a margin in order to make the panel not 
> covered by other windows when they are maximized. The fact is that 
> 800x600 user (like me) that use the panel and the taskbar at this 
> resolution have less space for windows.
> 
>    To solve this, I set a 1px top margin (my panel is at top of my 
> screen) and let the panel be a "normal windows". When I need it and a 
> maximized windows cover it, I just have to click on top of my screen to 
> make it appears (because of 1px margin).
> 
>    Well, I know what you are going to tell me : "use panel's auto-hide 
> option". Yes, that's right, I could do that. But when the panel 
> auto-hide itself, there is 3px border (HIDDEN_SIZE value) that overlap 
> maximized windows, and window theme using 16px title bar get covered by 
> a 3px bar : with 16px title bar, this is very ugly an 800x600. So, I 
> could use auto-hide if there is a way to set the panel "height" when it 
> auto-hides itself and, in fact, before packaging the panel for myself, I 
> change the HIDDEN_SIZE in panel.c. Moreover, when there is no window or 
> when all windows are minimized on the current workspace, it's annoying 
> to have to unhide the panel to launch something : it would be great if 
> it unhide itsel in that particular case.
> 
>    Voila, it was my 2 euro cents :)
> 
>    P.S. : tell me if this kind of message is not used to be sent to 
> this list, sometimes I feel guilty to post such message here.
> 
> Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> >Thanks, I cannot agree with you more. I'm afraid I gave in to the pressure 
> >too
> >soon. To me it makes sense to have the panel as a dock type window.
> >
> >On the other hand there are apparently a lot of people who want their 
> >panel to
> >be covered by other windows.
> >
> >I have two options:
> >- Make the panel a dock type window. This is my personal preference. It 
> >does
> >  take away some configurability.
> >- Make panel a normal window and use window state ABOVE for always on top.
> >  This will possibly make more people happy.
> >
> >Other opinions?
> 
> -- 
> LiNuCe
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