Panel icon themeing changes (and more)

[Josh Howard]

Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at xfce.org> writes:

> Another, possibly controversial, decission I made was to turn the panel into a
> dock type window (like gnome-panel), which is consequently always on top, and
> add partial struts to allow xfwm to do the right thing.

Are you saying that xfwm will be in charge of deciding whether or not
windows can remain on top or not? If not, I don't suppose there's any
chance this could become sort of an option? It's a frustration when
you can't make objects on the desktop do what you want, for instance
go under something else if that's what you want. I don't think the
desktop should ever fight you for where you want to put things unless
you specifically tell it to. In my case, I pretty much never, ever
want windows to remain on top.
However, if xfwm is going to be allowed to decide whether or not
windows can stay on top or not, I wouldn't be averse to seeing
something like an application specific set of window manager options;
like if the app is xfce4-panel, set the 'Always on top' and 'sticky'
options on it, or not as your desires may be. fvwm2 supports a pretty
extensive list of things that you can do a per-window name
level. xfwm doesn't support the (overly) large amount of options
fvwm2 does, but it would be nice if you could always set some options
based on the window name and xfce apps wouldn't ignore it.


-- 
Josh Howard <jrh at zeppelin.net>