Re: able to customize bottom panel?

[Marina Zhurakhinskaya <marinaz redhat com>]

Hey!

I moved the expanded view mockups to
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/DesignerPlayground/ExpandedViewMockups
because as Jon pointed out they were not discussed at the hackfest. These mockups were instrumental in implementing the expanded view for applications and documents, but we are currently not using the scrollbar that is shown on them, and are doing paging instead.

Dean, lower panel is hard-coded at present, but it is our goal to replace it with something more convenient and interesting. There are no current plans for how we'll be able to allow different panel types, add-ons, or incorporate GNOME Do, but this will be addressed in the future.

We'd like to enable having a different wallpaper for each desktop. Here is a mockup from Brian Fleeger that captures the idea:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26671354 N05/3334338024/sizes/o/in/photostream/

While no work has been done so far to enable different wallpapers, the idea from this mockup to use a zoomed in and fuzzed out wallpaper image for the overlay wallpaper is currently being implemented by Sander Dijkhuis:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=578584

You can definitely file bug reports in Bugzilla or add your design ideas to the wiki. You can also use the IRC channel to get quick feedback about the bugs you are encountering.

Thanks,
Marina 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dušan Maliarik" <dusan maliarik gmail com>
To: gnome-shell-list gnome org
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 3:49:47 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: able to customize bottom panel?


Desktop is managed by nautilus, an so is wallpaper. Multiple wallpaper for workspaces is ever poping request, but it looks like nobody from developers is interested (you know, obligate: code it yourself response) 


Disappearance of bottom panel is one of the goals for gnome-shell. 


I would rather focus on basic concept, which is ill IMHO. That mockups are too messy, just look at this http://live.gnome.org/Boston2008/GUIHackfest/WindowManagementAndMore?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=appmenu_creativeapp-recent-files.png 


It's abuse of scrollbar, whenever you want do something quickly (launch application, document,..), don't use scrollbar, it's usability killer! 


On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 06:28, Dean Loros < autocrosser1 gmail com > wrote: 


Greetings! 

I have been running gnome-shell & have a couple of questions: 

Where are the configs for the lower panel or is it hard-coded at present? I would like to run a lower panel similar to the one I am using in my current Gnome session or are there plans to extend to allow such things as Gnome-do, AWN or another panel type? 

Second question: Are there plans to allow changing wallpaper, either by each desktop to further define each space or all change at a given time interval (such as Wallpaper-tray or similar)? 

Lastly: I think I have the link to bug reporting, are reports encouraged or wanted at this time? 

Thank You 

Dean Loros 
autocrosser at Ubuntuforums 
Performance by Design Ltd. 
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