Panel Settings Dialog

Foxy foxy at on-the-hill.me.uk
Fri Dec 16 11:53:27 CET 2005


Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Jari Rahkonen schreef:
> ...
>   
>> The new dialog looks pretty and compact, I really like it.
>>
>> My only concern would still be discoverability. It took me a minute
>> just staring at the list of rows all saying 'launcher' to realize,
>> what it was supposed to represent. I bet if the items had the same
>> icons they have in the panel I'd gotten hang of it much sooner.
>>     
>
> Yup, that's exactly my concern as well.
>
> I'd love to be able to use the actual icon in the dialog. For launcher 
> this should not be much of a problem, but for other things like the 
> tasklist I need to be a bit more clever ;-)
>
> Taking a snapshot of the plugin and using that as icon, cropped to a 
> reasonable size if necessary, should be possible, I think.
>
>   
>> What I'm trying to say is that the dialog is still a bit confusing,
>> but it's definitely going in the right direction.
>>
>>     
>
> Thanks for testing!
>
> 	Jasper
>
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Frankly speaking I liked the previous version better. Everything was on 
one screen and here you have to switch between tabs. Also it took me a 
while to realised that I have to click on + button to have the list of 
available panel items. In the previous panel it was more intuitive in my 
opinion.



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