Re: New Panel...

[bratsche dfw net]

   I'm not sure if I'm understanding this right; you want all applets to
have the ability to be detached from the panel and be able to be dragged
around the desktop as though they're a normal app? The point of a panel
applet is to write a program that fits inside the panel. If you want a
program that you can drag around the desktop, write it with GnomeApp
instead. Mini-Commander used to (still does? I'm not sure, I don't use it
right now) have a dock widget so you could drag it off the panel. The most
obvious flaw with this design is that your program is then consuming space
on both your desktop AND your panel. In my opinion, that's a very bad
thing and I think it should be avoided.

Cody

On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Fox, Kevin M wrote:

> I was playing with libglade (very cool stuff) over the weekend and made a
> panel applet that could take read in its interface from a glade file...
> Well, I was playing around with it, putting different kinds of widgets in
> the applet. Then I tried putting a gnome dock widget in it with a fiew dock
> items... When I saw the result, my jaw dropped. Suddenly (confined to the
> applet space) was what looked like an improved panel. The dock items were
> free to move up/down left/right, instead of just the left/right of the
> panel... They could even be torn off. Then it really hit me. Rewrite the
> panel to use a panel widget based on the gnome dock. Well, being a c coder
> in training, I figured I would try to write a small example of it. I kinda
> did. Its not perfect, but its a start. Kinda a proof of concept. 
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> To try it, run make. If you have libglade on your box, there is a libglade
> based test applet that you can play with to see the true power of the panel.
> To get the libglade ver, type "make libglade-test-applet". To play with it,
> start the window panel, "./window-panel &". It spits out its IOR. Copy the
> IOR and hand it as the first argument to the test-applet. "./test-applet IOR
> &". You can start the test-applet as many times as you want... Play, Have
> fun, whatever.... :)
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