Vertical panel mode(s)

[Nick Schermer]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Andrzej <ndrwrdck at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 10/27/2011 04:41 PM, Nick Schermer wrote:
>>
>> My idea was to add a packing/container plugin to add for example 3
>> launchers in a vertical row. Is still on the 4.10 roadmap, but I'm not
>> sure if I can complete it mostly because I doubt it's a solution for
>> the problem and might be complicated to work with.
>
> Having the container plugin would be neat but I agree with you that it is
> not addressing the whole issue. How about focusing on adding some plumbing
> to the framework (even if it ends up not being used in 4.10 or not exposed
> in the GUI(?)) so that later we can just fix *all* the plugins later?

We could also make multiple launcher buttons show up as individual
buttons in deskbar mode (until nbuttons > width/height).

All other plugins can work in their own way with deskbar mode, for
example not a square button, but a maximum height of X pixels.

Nick