Re: adding dead space to floating panels

[Bertrand <anneetbertrand gnome org>]

> On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 09:51, MArk Finlay wrote:
> > > 2. Modem lights: If a user connects to the internet using a dialer
> > > program it should minimize into the notification area as in
> windows. Why
> > > should a user need to manually add this to the panel?
> >
> > I agree with what you say for the other applets, and If gnome had a
> nice
> > GUI dialup program it would be great if it behaved as you describe.
> But
> > The Modem lights applet does more that just display info when the
> user
> > is online.
> >
> > I and a lot of other users use it to dial up too ..
>
> And I of course am not advocating removal of it before an acceptable
> substitute is available :)
>
> dave
Just my opinion : modemlights applet "is" my dialer. And it's a very 
cool feature of gnome. I never used gppp or kppp because they just 
don't work on my system (Mdk8.2 PPC).
And I don't like these big windows for displaying such a little 
information : are you connected or not ?

To be a real and very cool dialer, Modemlights only needs to offer the 
ability to set different connections for different IAP and to choose 
between them.