Re: OOP applets; man pages
- From: Miles Lane <miles megapathdsl net>
- To: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- Cc: George <jirka 5z com>, desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: OOP applets; man pages
- Date: 12 Feb 2002 15:19:46 -0800
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 14:54, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
> George <jirka 5z com> writes:
> >
> > s/like in Windows/like in GNOME/
> >
> > Status dock thing has been there since like 1.2. Just no one is
> > using it.
>
> I know it's been there, but no one uses it because we don't have it
> turned on by default, and gtk/libgnomeui don't support it. It also
> hasn't been made explicit when to use this vs. an applet.
>
> Doesn't it use the same setup as the KDE one? I'd personally like to
> see the protocol for it cleaned up and written down and put on
> freedesktop.org, and at that point I think it'd even be reasonable to
> have a GTK feature for this, though I don't know if others would
> agree. Certainly a libgnomeui feature.
>
> > And really that was the idea of the status dock, if an application wants to
> > put something on the panel, putting up an applet is annoying and obnoxious,
> > especially if it is temporary since you might close the app soon.
>
> I agree.
I'd like to see this used for application-specific capplets
or small programs that have the same role as capplets,
that of configuring an application. IIUC, that is what
these icons are used for on Windows.
Miles
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