Re: The Panel needs simplification

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 11:47, Steve Fox wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 09:41, MArk Finlay wrote:
> > 
> > 1. Remove the idea of Panel Types and just have one panel with
> > intelligent behavior and a few more options.
> 
> This would be cool, but it seems difficult to distinguish between an
> edge panel and a sliding or corner panel with only mouse movements.
> Obviously floating would be "easy".

I believe Calum (or someone from the UI team) described in a bug how
this could be done reasonably sanely.

> > 2. Turn the menu panel into a normal panel with the menu applet.
> 
> This is being done for 2.2 AFAIK.

We want to do it but no one has stepped up to the bat to write code.

Luis