Re: 2.3 Proposed Features

[Chris Chabot <chabotc xs4all nl>]

Actually this touches a bit on a old gripe i had with the panel (which
was filed in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73711)

We fixed the panel & applets so it picks up the background color of
it, however 'transparency' is something that is something they do not
adjust to (window list, clock and sound mixer come to mind as obvious
examples).. Thats a shame since 'miss-behaving' applets like that spoil
the posibility to do nice graphical looks like in that longhorn
screenshot.. 

(i presume it is already fully posible to set a text color per-panel
thru a theme's rc file? imagine you have a transparent panel on a dark
background color (like longhorn dark blue), you would need to set the
text color of that one panel to white.. If not, that will be the next
chalange ;-)

    -- Chris

Chipzz wrote:
> On 7 Feb 2003, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>
> > From: Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>
> > Subject: Re: 2.3 Proposed Features
> >
> > 	Well, really that has nothing to do with the panel itself. This is why
> > I hate the fact that applets are so straightforward to write - the world
> > and his mother write l33t new applets but no thought is given to making
> > them work well on really small panels or vertical panels. Each
> >   
>
> Or on transparant panels...
>
> > individual applet needs to be designed to handle these scenarios well -
> > and that's not an easy task for most applets.
> >
> > Good Luck,
> > Mark.
> >   
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Chipzz AKA
> Jan Van Buggenhout