Panel Plugins

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Wed Sep 14 23:59:00 CEST 2005


Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>>>- Menu
>>>>  The Xfce menu plugin should at least be part of the default Xfce
>>>>  install. If there will be a common menu implementation in libxfcegui4
>>>>  it could be part   of the panel, otherwise it should probably remain
>>>>  in xfdesktop.
>>>
>>>Brian said he lost interest to work on this so we're probably bound to
>>>what we have right now.
> 
> Botsie started to look at this, so maybe not.

Ah, good to know.

>>>>- System Tray
>>>>  I currently optionally show the time in the systray. This is a common
>>>>  setup in other environments, but of course duplicates functionality of
>>>>  the clock. Should it be in there?
>>> 
>>>People requested this quite often and it's really easy, so I'd say, it
>>>should be in.
> 
> Disagree.  Why put the clock in the systray if it's already a separate
> item?  If a user wants a clock next to the systray, they can just put
> one there.

Well, there's no special reason to do so, it's just convenience. I kinda
prefer to have one clock (date-time plugin) in the panel and the
notification area clock in the taskbar. It's a feature with no noticable
overhead, so why drop it?

> 	-brian

Benedikt



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