Re: [wish list request]

[Cody Russell <bratsche gnome org>]

I think it would be cool if the drawer contained something like recently
opened documents of the type associated with that application. 
Currently, I don't think there is very good document type association in
Gnome though.

This would be probably more useful, and certainly more intuitive to new
users.  A new user looking for their email client might not know to look
under the Internet category (especially if it's marked with a big red
dinosaur's head).

On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 12:35, John Ericson wrote:
> 
> On Apr 07 10:07, Cody Russell wrote:
> > I don't really understand what is supposed to be in the drawer.  If the
> > launcher is for a web browser, does the drawer contain recently visited
> > websites or something?
> 
> I think its more catergory based. In the drawer is several programs in the
> same category and the launcher is the most commonly used program in that
> category. Ex. The launcher is a web browser and the drawer is misc.
> programs for internet such as e-mail and newsreader.
> 
> > On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 11:47, John Ericson wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Apr 06 21:29, Riswick, J.G.A. van wrote:
> > > > It would be nice if the gnome panel would get a 
> > > > widget like in the cde panel, that consists of  
> > > > a button to launch an application, and in the top
> > > > has a button to open a menu or drawer like so:
> > > > 
> > > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvanr/panel.jpg
> > > > 
> > > > In the drawer usually are applications that are 
> > > > of the same type as the launcher on the panel.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > This functionality exist in xfce
> > > (http://www.xfce.org/xfce-snap2-large.jpg).