RFE - Panel drawer actions

Jesse Wagner beansack at fastmail.fm
Tue Mar 16 01:17:22 CET 2004


I have to agree. This would drive me nuts.

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:13:33 -0500 (EST), "Brian J. Tarricone"
<bjt23 at cornell.edu> said:
> thank you!  while this may be a 'nifty feature' to some, it totally goes 
> against the standard expected behavior for menus: you open a menu, you 
> click somewhere (anywhere) else, and the menu closes.  calling it a 
> 'drawer' doesn't change the fact that it looks like a menu, acts like a 
> menu, and therefore _is_ a menu.  just because CDE did (does) it doesn't 
> mean it's good - i'd argue to the contrary.
> 
> 	-brian
> 
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> 
> > Guys,
> > 
> > I really, really, klemmer this (for real)
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Olivier.
> > 
> > On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 00:52, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> > > Joe Klemmer wrote:
> > > > 	This is something that I've been meaning to bring up since the feature
> > > > was originally changed (back in the very-pre-4 days)...
> > > > 
> > > > 	In the panel, when you click to open a "drawer" (or whatever it's
> > > > called) when another one is open the first one is automatically closed. 
> > > > I would like to have the option to have it not close the other drawers. 
> > > > I like to be able to have more than one open at a time but not have to
> > > > tear off the menu into it's own window (though I like that, too).
> > > > 
> > > > 	If anyone needs me to translate this into some coherent language known
> > > > to man just let me know.
> > > 
> > > I think, this screenshots translates it best
> > > http://www.xfce.org/~benny/trials/snapshots/20040315-my-panel.png
> > > 
> > > Now, whats up Joe, wanna have my panel? ;-)
> > > 
> > > Benedikt
> > 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Xfce4-dev mailing list
> Xfce4-dev at xfce.org
> http://lunar-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce4-dev

-- 
http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but different




More information about the Xfce4-dev mailing list