Re: GNOME Panel++

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On Sep 24, 2007, at 3:00 PM, Alex Jones wrote:
> ...
>  What do we want from the next version of GNOME Panel?
>
>  Do we want to evolve it or just replace the dependency on Bonobo for 
> now?
>
>  I think that unifying the concept of applets and more heavyweight 
> "widgets" might be beneficial, unless anyone can think of any good 
> reason why not to. Any GDesklets developers here?
> ...

Besides the lack of a global menu bar, which John Stowers mentioned, 
another irritant interaction-wise is inconsistency in behavior between 
panel applets. Some applets do something on a single click, others 
don't, and there's no way to tell which just by looking. Some applets 
do something on a double click, others don't, and there's no way to 
tell which just by looking. Some applets open a menu or menu-like 
control, but they differ in whether they make it look like a menu, and 
if you mouse down on the wrong one you can't slide over to the correct 
one like you can with a normal menu bar.

It would be really neat if the panel could make these behaviors 
consistent.

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/