Aw: Re: Default settings for 4.4

[Rain Viigipuu]

Hi,

I was thinking about it, and I think there should be 2 panels, one as
taskbar at the top of the screen and the pager panel on the bottom of the
screen:

 - Taskbar panel should have taskbar and at least system tray.

Pager panel should have:

 - terminal (like 4.2) - because terminal is needed pretty often in linux,
are you newbie or not. If you ask help from somewhere, it is pretty sure,
that you end up typing commands in terminal, as some guru tells you.

 - web browser - should launch firefox by default, because it is a very
popular browser.

 - file manager - if i understand correctly, thunar will it be

 - pager (because 4.2 has it and it is like a part of the xfce default look)

 - quit button

Maybe the clock should be moved back to the bottom panel ... or maybe not. I
have it on the top panel next to system tray like it was by default, and i
haven't moved it from there, so maybe it isn't that big deal.

I think there should be no mail client or instant messaging or irc client
launchers by default, nor any system status plugins - people can add those
by themself and set them to the programs thay use. Terminal, web browser and
filemanager are just the ones, that are probably most commonly needed anyway
(terminal at least while setting up the system - right now comes to mind for
example enabling the restart/shut down buttons when quitting xfce4)

just another my opinion.

Rain

On 4/9/06, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> In my very humble opinion, I think the goal is not to provide a default
> settings that would please all users, but provide something more user
> friendly than just an empty panel featuring a launcher that launch
> nothing.
>
> The Xfce menu would be solve the problem of making the install apps
> available to users without the hassle of "guessing" what is actually
> installed on the system.
>
> As for the rest, it's mostly to decide how many panels we set by
> default, where we put the taskbar/menu and a very few launcher (like the
> terminal and firefox at least).
>
> A bit like what we did for the previous xfce release, nothing more.
>
> Cheers,
> Olivier.
>
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