Re: UI ideas

["Jesse D . Sightler" <jsight pair com>]

On Wed, 24 Mar 1999 20:30:15 you wrote:

> 	Similarly, when one does right click, the menu has the following
> options: Add this as drawer to panel, add as menu to panel, add to
> personal menu and properties. I find it quite anoying that there's no "add
> new launcher" but instead I have to go into the menu editor for that which
> semes counterintuitive (because you have to go somewhere else entirely to
> change something with no clue that that's how to do it)

I don't understand.  When I right click on a program in the menu it does
offer me the option to add it as a launcher to the panel.  Similarly, I can
right click on the panel add have the add new launcher option.  Where is
this option missing?

> 	When I've got the panel with some wide app (such as the cd plyer
> on a vertical panel) I am annoied by the amount of screen space that is
> going to waste on my small monitor(800x600) I use two corner panels: one
> for the wide stuff, one for the launchers. It'd be better if the panel
> could be configured to be wider only where the wide apps are, and
> otherwise being the default 50 pixels.

Bulges in the panel?  Ack, I wouldn't like that, but maybe some folx would.:)

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