new panel, config files

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Andreas J. Guelzow schreef:
> On Sun, 2005-02-10 at 16:26 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> 
>>I was thinking part of the usefulness of the panel assigning a config
>>file name is that the panel can clean up after the plugin when it's
>>removed.  So basically what I'm saying is that the panel should unlink()
>>a plugin's config file when it's removed.  I have 25 files in
>>~/.config/xfce4/panel/, and I only have 8 plugins in my panel.  I'm sure
>>you probably have a lot more, considering testing ^_~.  What do you think?
> 
> 
> Hi Brian,
> 
> personally I would hate this. If I were using my homedirectory from
> several machines I would ideally like to have separate panel layouts for
> the different machines. In that case removal of the config file for an
> applet removed from one panel on one machine would interfere with the
> setups for the other machines.

Plugin config files are unique. Removing a plugin in one panel won't 
affect the other.

> 
> Why would I like different setups for different machines? Well the
> screen size may vary or I might have a dual head setup on some of the
> machines.
> 

Hmm, you will need some tricks to get two panel configurations in the 
same directory. Creating a symlink based on the hostname, or something.