Re: Panel Accessibility - Key Nav

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Drazen Kacar wrote:
> 
> Bill Haneman wrote:
> 
> > to ACTIVE).  We do want the panel to use themes don't we?  I think that
> > even bitmap backgrounds for Panel should come from the theme.
> 
> I've seen reports claiming that Gnome usage on X terminals pretty quickly
> saturates local networks, whereas CDE does not.

I have used both CDE and Gnome (well, attempted to use it ;-) over vnc.
The difference is, ahem, very noticeable allright.

> I haven't done any measurements myself and I've never asked for more
> details, so I cannot say if those reports were overstatements or not.
> 
> But please take into account the network bandwith when designing defaults.

I am not sure what you mean here - bitmap themes are generally going to
be bandwidth hogs.  Just adding the panel to the set of apps using the
bitmaps doesn't seem to be a big additional hit.  I think that this is a
good reason to make the default theme a non-bitmap one though.

But if GTK apps are already using the bitmaps, I don't see much
performance value in being inconsistent with respect to the panel.

-Bill
 
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