Re: 2.3 Proposed Features

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:50:53AM +0000, Glynn Foster wrote:
>  
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> > Hey hey,
> >
> >    
> >
> > > 	Here's a list of some of the things I expect to get done in the panel
> > > for 2.4:
> > >      
> > This is definitely all cool stuff - of course now is the time to
> > seriously rethink how we do panels and the interaction and waste time in
> > usability world....um....I guess I'm wondering if we can just kill
> > drawers ;)
> >    
>
> A surprising number of people use the drawers. I think there isn't
> another way to have large numbers of launchers.
>  
The panel menu does a good job of presenting mulitple launchers.  Maybe 
allowing customised menus would be a good replacement for drawers?  The 
main difference between menus and drawers is that you can only really 
put launchers in a menu.  Is there anyone who uses drawers to hold 
actual applets?

James.

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