Re: minimum panel width and autohide butons

[Michael Bowman <bowmanmc gmail com>]

sean d wrote:
>  The buttons on either side of the panel waste space.  While they may be 
> useful for some to move the panel, I can easily move the panel without 
> them.  In my case I wanted to make a panel with 2 or 3 small itens on it 
> and not have extra blank space in the panel.  It seems natural to have a 
> checkbox in the properties dialog to hide buttons completely to me, but 
> I think it would be ok to configure this in a file.
>
> I also don't see a reason to pick a number like 100 for minimum width, 
> is there some significance to this? It seems rather arbitrary.
>
> Right now both are defined as constants in a c file, so the only way to 
> change it is to recompile.   It would be great to add these settings to 
> the xml file for the panel configuration instead.  Does this seem 
> reasonable?
Yup. I'd personally love to see it as a gconf setting. That way advanced 
users can set it lower/turn it off if they want to and it could default 
to 10 for newbs.

I've had pretty much the same panel layout for a few years now. I'm used 
to it and I know I'm not going to need the handles to move the panel. 
Having the option to turn them off would be great since they are ugly as 
sin when you have a transparent panel.

my .02

Thanks,
-Michael

> */Tomasz Janowitz <logan77 o2 pl>/* wrote:
>
>     sean d wrote:
>      > I would like to add an option to the properties of gnome panel to
>     remove
>      > the buttons on either side of the panel completely. When they are not
>      > used for autohide they are essentially wasting space correct? I also
>      > would like to decrease the minimum panel width to whatever the size
>      > (panel height) is set to instead of the arbitrarily large number of
>      > 100. This is easily done as everything is defined as constants at the
>      > beginning of panel-toplevel.c
>
>     As to the buttons i don't think it is necessary. When they are not
>     used for hiding panel then they can be
>     used to move panel. You can pick only 4 orientations of panel and if
>     you choose for example not
>     expanding, than there can be problems with positioning it (think
>     corner panel).
>     As to the decreasing the minimum panel width i am not sure if this
>     is a good idea. When you
>     'accidentally' shrink the panel t o the size where menu icon, or
>     desktop switcher are barely visible some
>     users just may have problems with falling back (especially the
>     newcomers, which we wouldn't like to
>     happen would we ?). Maybe such an option for those who really need
>     it would be viable _only_ with the
>     Configuration Editor, so it wouldn't be to easy to mess things up ?
>     But hey, wait for the devs what They've got to say.
>
>
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