Panel stickiness

[Auke Kok]

Simon Huggins wrote:

>A number of Debian users are a bit concerned that they can no longer put
>the panel wherever they like.
>
>See this bug for information:
>http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496
>
>Why is the panel no longer freely movable?
>
>I must admit I hadn't noticed as I always keep mine at the bottom but I
>can't see an advantage to users to force them to always have it in one
>place.
>
>What drove this decision?
>
>You can see some of the bugs Debian users have filed at:
>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=315694
>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=315663
>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=315053
>
>Some of these can be satisfied by the taskbar plugin but I wonder what
>made you set the panel to only sit on an edge.
>  
>

umm, debian users are kind of slow: this change was made almost more 
than half a year ago if not more. The decision comes from the very 
foundations of Xfce: to keep it simple and fast.

However, you'll be happy to know that the future panel implementation 
will probably make the panel movable again.

sofar