Panel Settings Dialog
Biju Chacko
botsie at xfce.org
Sat Dec 17 13:18:19 CET 2005
> That's what makes this so hard. That's why I have the 'edit' mode, which
> disables normal functionality and allows DND for everything.
>
> Actions the user may want to perform:
> - add items
> - remove items
> - move items
> - configure items
> - add panels
> - remove panels
> - configure panels
>
> Of course the right-click menu has to remain small, the dialog(s)
> understandable and it must be easy to find out how to do something. As
> you can tell from the many attempts, I don't really know how.
>
> Matters are complicated by the fact that we have multiple panels and
> that plugins will generally be out-of-process.
>
> I'm still trying out different ideas, but I will have to make a
> decission fairly soon now, I guess, to have a chance to stabilize things.
I suggest you study what other panels do. gnome-panel has a "move"
context-menu item, for example.
-- b
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