Re: Panel idea

[Tom Gilbert <gilbertt tomgilbert freeserve co uk>]

* Cory Lueninghoener (cluening@cse.unl.edu) [990727 22:13]:
> So, here I am working away with my Gnome panel running vertically along
> the left hand edge of me screen with asclock running at one end.  After
> working for a while, covering my desktop with xterms and the like, and
> generally making a mess I decide to hide the panel by use of the nice
> little buttons at the end.  Unfortunatly, that hides everything, including
> my precious asclock that lets me know when it is time to go home.  So,
> here is my idea.  What if there was an option on the panel someplace to
> leave one or two apps sticking out of the end when the panel is hidden
> with the arrows?  That way only the clock would be visable when I wanted,
> but at all other times everything would be there.  Has this ever been
> discussed before?  Or is there some big glaring reason it hasn't?
> 
> Cory Lueninghoener

Not what you asked, but could you not spawn another corner panel, and
stick your clock on that?

I have a bottom-right corner panel with my clock, ppp dialer and
cpu-usage applets on, and a left-hand corner panel with my pager,
quicklaunch bar and foot menu.

Works quite well, and I can still hide the clock when I *really* need
the space.

Tom.
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