Re: 2.3 Proposed Features

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl>]

Hi Mark,

On Mon, 11 Feb 2003, Mark McLoughlin wrote:

> > If we do keep them, we should at least make more attempt to integrate
> > them better... e.g. now that there's only going to be one type of panel,
> > you should be able to drag panels onto other panels to turn them into
> > 'drawers'[1], and you should be able to drag a drawer off a panel to
> > turn it into a regular panel.
>
> 	Yeah, I'm really interested in this idea - I wrote it in such a way
> that this shouldn't be too hard to do. I (or someone else) justs need to
> thing about the behaviour more closely -

Well, for one thing I think drawers (panels too, in fact) are pretty much
equivalent to folders. So how about this: dragging a desktop folder to a
panel creates a drawer and vice versa.

Drawers containing drawers should then of course be possible as well.

(This is how Lotus' SmartCenter used to behave, a desktop panel which was
later added to OS/2 Warp 4 and called WarpCenter).

regards,

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