Customize Panels dialog (Was: Re: panel item remove confirmation)

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Don Christensen schreef:
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> ...
> 
>>3.  Monitor: I like the visual style of the buttons, but if there are
>>more than 4 monitors, the dialog starts to get ugly.  Though that's
>>probably a minority case, and designing for the minority is relatively
>>dumb.  Leaving this here in case you want to think about it for other
>>reasons.
> 
> 
> Is the monitor selection for use with Xinerama, non-Xinerama, or
> both?  I have two monitors but don't use Xinerama, so I would like
> to make sure everything is going to work properly with that setup.
> I don't use Xinerama because I like to have independent control of
> the workspaces on each monitor.
> 

It works for both. Hopefully ;)

> It would be really cool if you could lay out the monitor icons as
> they are physically placed.  You would have to parse the X server
> config (I assume there is a way to get that info from the server
> programmatically without having to parse the actual config file).
> 

I wouldn't really know, and I'm not sure it is worth the trouble.

> 
>>4.  Panel names: This is a little useless, but maybe make it possible to
>>name each panel?  I first thought about this when I went to remove a
>>panel, and it said something like "Are you sure you want to remove panel
>>'2'?"  I was like, "that sounds silly".  Some people might like to name
>>one of their panels "taskbar" or something.  At least it'll make it more
>>clear which is which, rather than just having to remember which one was
>>created first, second, etc.  People with multiple monitors will probably
>>appreciate this more.
> 
> 
> If you want to take on a challenge, then put up a little image of
> the monitor with all of the panels on that monitor with the panel
> in question highlighted.  Also, put the monitor number on there.
> That would prevent any confusion.
> 

I have quite enough challenges as it is, thank you ;-) Something like 
the code for the pager might be useful here.

> Just some thoughts, since everyone seems to be contributing their
> two cents.
> 

Thanks,
	Jasper