Re: panel-client? (Re: GNU Midnight Commander 4.5.39 is released)

[Norman Stevens <norman arcady u-net com>]

On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, James M. Cape wrote:

> Daniel Serodio wrote:

[snip]

> >         Agreed. I think one of the aspects in which Gnome is lacking the most is
> > keyboard navigation. You need the mouse to do *anything*, the existing
> > keybindings are not very consistent, developers forget to bind Enter to OK
> > buttons and ESC to Cancel, etc. Maybe we should make a "Keyboard Navigation
> > Effort", like the Icons and the UI one?
> 
> Well, keyboard navigation is part of the user interface, but the way the
> panel works now, an extension to the wm spec is necessary (unless one
> wants to mess with keyboard shorcuts across the various WMs).
> 
I like the panel-client option, or a corba interface so that
the panel could be managed externally. Perhaps even putting
the individual panel items into control-center.

Norman