New panel in trunk

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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On 11/9/2005 12:18 PM, Antonio SJ Musumeci wrote:
> It may be that they work more or less the same... i've not spent much 
> time with the new panel. The comment about finding it difficult on a 
> full panel to right click and get it's setting... i second that. maybe 
> the panel as a whole in general should be able to be right clicked and 
> put into an edit mode...

Again, that's exactly how it is.  Before making random suggestions,
please at least look at what's there.

> andd then the plugins can have their opitions in a tabbed notebook
>  or the like?

Yuck.

	-b



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> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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> On 11/9/2005 11:36 AM, Antonio SJ Musumeci wrote:
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>>Maybe something like E17? All the plugins and panels and what-not are 
>>edited mainly in an "edit" mode where they can be moved and resized and 
>>otherwise altered.
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> .. which is exactly the case now*, unless I'm misunderstanding you..
> 
> 	-brian
> 
> * with the exception of accessing the properties of individual plugins,
> but I think this is worthwhile to be able to do from the menu.
> 
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>>Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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>>On 11/9/2005 3:28 AM, Jani Monoses wrote:
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>>>I thought a bit more about this and I think that customizing the panel 
>>>itself is even less frequent then the various plugins in it.
>>>So having customize panel on every right-click menu seems a bit too much 
>>>to me (Especially since it does not appear on systray and the tasklist, 
>>>so it is not even consistent across the whole area of the panel).
> 
>>>One of the reasons I see for this is that if the whole panel is filled 
>>>with plugins it is hard to find an area to click on to get at the 
>>>panel's own config menu. I think of having some area reserved on the 
>>>panel or a special fake plugin which would act as the panel itself.
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>>You also forgot non-full-width panels.  It's virtually impossible to not
>>click on a plugin in that case.  A fake plugin is a pretty nasty idea.
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>>>BTW: do I do anythoing wrong with the moving of panel plugins? I cannot 
>>>click and drag them as I said yesterday.
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>>You have to have the "Customize Panel" dialog open.  Seems to make
>>sense, no?  You *are* customizing the panel by dragging them around.
> 
>>	-b
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