Notes on the new panel
Jannis Pohlmann
info at sten-net.de
Wed Sep 21 10:56:31 CEST 2005
>>1. Perhaps the customize panel dialog should have a list of items which
>> are in the currently selected panel so that you can move items up and
>> down just like you can in the properties of the starter. It took some
>> time until I noticed that I can just drag them somewhere else.
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> Maybe. I don't really like having too many ways to edit panel contents.
> I agree that it will probably easier to discover.
The possibility of dragging the items around isn't clear, I think. Maybe
you're right. But perhaps you could make it more obvious (don't know in
which way, though).
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>>2. Don't know if this really makes sense, but wouldn't it be great to
>> allow the plugins to define custom options in their context menu?
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> xfce_panel_plugin_menu_insert_item ()
Ah, great.
>>3. The icons of the panel actions plugin are kinda small at the moment.
>> If you enable both, screen locking and quit, it becomes hard to
>> distinguish them in a panel with about 30-35 pixels height. Also, it
>> would be nice to let the user switch between horizontal and vertical
>> orientation manually.
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> You can add two single action buttons. I wanted to keep it as simple as
> possible.
I see. The "Quit" button doesn't work properly yet. Is this intended?
When I click it (on panel 1), xfce4-panel closes and when I re-run it
only panel 2 shows up again until I restart Xfce.
- Jannis
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