Re: How to Determine Version (if panel is full of applets [SOLVED?])

[Sami Teemu Pesonen <sami t pesonen kolumbus fi>]

ke, 2004-07-14 kello 12:42, Daniel James kirjoitti:
> Quoting Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn ant uni-bremen de>:
> > >>>One question. How do you get this same context menu if you have panel
> > >>>full of applets? Is there any way? At the moment I don't have any empty
> > >>>space in my panel and it impossible to check this information. Should
> > >>>there be one pixel empty space in bottom of panel to make it possible?
> > > This is still something that needs to be addressed. The applet menus
> > > should perhaps have an entry for the full gnome panel context menu. I
> > > usually get around the problem by moving objects to expose some panel
> > > and then right click on the panel but I don't think my parents are going
> > > to understand that...
> > Or right click on the hide buttons (they don't use much space when 
> > configured w/o arrow).
> 
> If you have your panel configured not to show hide buttons and to expand to fill
> the edge of the screen you don't have anywhere to click. If you leave hide
> buttons there then the user can suddenly make their panel 'vanish' and be very
> very confused..
> 
> I personally would like to see a common context menu thing .. I'm pretty sure
> this existed in gnome 1.4. Would take a lot of work though..

Yes I agree it would be too much work. I was wondering this problem and
noticed that you actually can get this panel context menu by clicking
with right button on bottom panel top pixel line (you need to click
farest pixel of this panel seen from screen edge).

In Gnome 2.2 (panel 2.2.2) you could click any panel edge pixel to get
this context menu. Is current behaviour done in purpose? Should I create
usability bug report about this? What do you people think?

My current panel version is by the way 2.6.0.

BR,
Sami
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