Re: Proposal for default panel layout w/ some modifications to the panel

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

I think this was intended for the list also.

John Summerfield wrote:

> I HATE the menu systems as implemented in Windows and parroted by KDE 
> and GNOME. I find it FAR TOO EASY to drag the mouse off the menu 
> whereupon the whole stucture collapses and I have to start from the 
> beginning.
>
> I came to Linux from OS/2. In OS/2 one could have Program Objects 
> (equivalent to launchers) (in fact any kind of object, but program 
> objects were most common) on the desktop and in folders.
>
> New in OS/2 Warp was the launcher. The launcher is is similar Wharf - 
> it gives single-click execution of individual programs.
>
> The easiest way to add an object to the launcher is to drag it and drop 
> it on the launcher.
>
> The launcher has drawers; one creates a drawer by dropping an object 
> onto an existing button which then develops a handle which you click to 
> open the drawer.
>
> This one can group, for example, one's internet tools - the dialler at 
> the top of the drawer, email, news, web browser, ftp and irc clients 
> and so on inside.
>
> A new product would create a folder, either on the desktop itself or in 
> the Programs folder, containing objects for the various components; it 
> may also put objects for its documents in the Info folder.
>
> The launcher has (as I recall) four buttons that cannot be removed, 
> thought they CAN be hidden; I can recall two of them - logoff and 
> window list.
>
> The launcher can be closed; a double-tap anywhere on the desktop opens 
> it and brings it to the top. With this behaviour, there's no need to 
> tie it to the edge.
>
> It is also possible to have more than one launcher.
>
> In the GNOME context, one might have a different launcher on each 
> desktop.

I like the idea of double click on the background.  Gnome already has 
drawers like this.

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