Panel Plugins

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Jari Rahkonen schreef:
> Biju Chacko wrote:
> 
> 
>>Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>
>>>>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.
> 
> 
> 
> So why can't the clock still be a single plugin that allows multiple
> instances? Put one in the taskbar next to the system tray/notification
> area and one in the panel. I might have misunderstood, but isn't the
> taskbar (going to be) basically an instance of the new panel?
> 

It's purely for aesthetic reasons. The current systemtray shows a frame 
(yeah, like windows) and the clock can be put inside this frame. 
However, it is only a simple digital clock, without the fancy features 
of the clock plugin.

	Jasper