Panel Plugins

[Biju Chacko]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, but I'm incompetent so you ought to be worried. ;-)  Anyway, no 
guarantees ...

>>>>>- 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?

Too many clocks reminds me of gnome a couple of years ago. I'd suggest 
that both clocks should have a consistent feature set. It doesn't seem 
to make sense that one clock should be less capable just because it's in 
the status area.

-- b