Panel stickiness

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Op za, 25-06-2005 te 17:20 +0200, schreef 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.
> 

Well, it made my life a bit easier ;-) Thanks for passing on the debian
reports though. I don't know how easy it would be to add it back now
(some things changed internally), but I could have a look.

The only reason I ever heard for not putting the panel on the screen
edge is to put it above or below the taskbar; in most of these cases the
person actually preferred the taskbar plugin.

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

If I don't forget ;-)

	Jasper