Panel feature requests

Jannis Pohlmann info at sten-net.de
Sun Jan 29 15:28:03 CET 2006


Jasper Huijsmans schrieb:
> Jannis Pohlmann schreef:
> 
>>Hey Jasper,
>>
>>I just found out that you can drag and drop stuff from xfce4-appfinder
>>to the starter preferences dialog. This is a great example of usability
>>but I'd like to see it being enhanced in some ways (if you don't mind,
>>of course - hehe):
>>
> 
> 
> ;-)
> 
> 
>>  1. You can drag items from the appfinder to the start preferences but
>>     you can't drag items from one starter dialog to another. Would this
>>     be difficult to implement?
>>
> 
> 
> Should not be too difficult. The treeview widget should be set as drag 
> source and provide a special desktop-data target or something.
> 
> 
>>  2. I were totally excited if dragging an item from appfinder to
>>     the panel would create a new start with this item as first start
>>     entry.
> 
> 
> If the panel is in customization mode it should be fairly easy. It just 
> needs a new target for desktop files (or maybe even any file/url).
> 
> 
>>Perhaps others have ideas or opinions on this, too. I'd be glad to hear
>>from you all.
> 
> 
> Well, as you know I only have very limited time these days, so it might 
> be better if you put a request in bugzilla, so I don't forget. I'd like 
> to implement both at some point...

Okay, that should be no problem. I'm glad you appreciate these features.

Regards,
Jannis



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