Re: Panel idea

["Sarel J. Botha" <sjb dundee lia net>]

On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 10:19:41PM +0000, Tom Gilbert wrote:
> * 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.

Couldn't the corner and side panels be merged? Just provide a way to resize
the corner panel and also provide an auto-size option that makes the panel be
as short as possible (just like a corner panel)?

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