vertical panel and tasklist

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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On 1/24/2006 11:45 AM, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> samuel verstraete schreef:
>> Jasper,
>>
>> I really like the new option you added so i can keep my panel on one
>> monitor and still have it "Full Width"
>>
>> 2 remarks
>>
>> If you put a tasklist in a vertical panel (i know that sounds
>> ridiculous) and you have only one task it takes up the whole panel...
>> (if you don't fully understand just try it... it's hard to explain
>> somehow)
>
> I know. Tasklist sucks in vertical mode. netk-tasklist.c is fairly 
> incomprehensible, though, so there is not much chance of it being fixed 
> soon.

I poked around in it last night to see how feasible it would be to use
pango's text rotation features to do sideways text with a vertical
tasklist.  Unfortunately, there are a lot of things in the tasklist that
assumes it's horizontal, so it would be a huge PITA to change at this point.

I really think we should plan to rewrite NetkTasklist for 4.6.  Or maybe
 at least glance at libwnck and see if the current tasklist code is any
nicer (or has features we want).

	-brian


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