a few panel questions

[Jani Monoses]

>>I think such behaviour is present in the win95 taskbar IIRC, it can be
>>snapped to the screen edges.
> 
> 
> This is the behavior of the 4.2 panel and I have had lots of trouble 
> getting positioning and resizing to work correctly. The new behavior is 
> much easier to implement, so I don't really want to change it.

Fair enough :)


> 
> The way to do this is to use a separator and set it to expand. This is 
> probably not obvious enough...

Indeed this solves the most frequent issue, thanks to Stefan too for
pointing this out. And indeed I never thought separator would have
properties so did not look

Jani