Re: Call for constructive user criticism.

[Jacob Berkman <jberkman andrew cmu edu>]

Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com> writes:

> Miguel> The thing that bothers me is that we have for example two ways
> Miguel> of "docking" applications in GNOME: on the Desktop and on the
> Miguel> Panel.  We have various ways of printing: with the print
> Miguel> applet or with the print toy-lette.
> 
> Miguel> Is this a problem?  Do people mind?  Or do people applaud this
> Miguel> duality?
> 
> I think it is a problem if we have to write the code twice.
> One solution would be to use a single docking interface.  Then we can
> write applets one way, and choose whether to dock on the panel or on
> the desktop dynamically.  We could even drag-n-drop between them.

This was the thought behind my post a few days ago about splitting the
panel-widget part of the panel into a library.  I am all for a common
applet interface/widget, instead of 2 (or more).

(gmc with mini-commander widgets inside of the windows?)

Jacob
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