Re: GNOME 2.0 Must Fix Item #1b - Panel, General Desktop Interaction

["Kevin Vandersloot" <kfv101 psu edu>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Seth Nickell" <snickell stanford edu>
To: <usability gnome org>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: GNOME 2.0 Must Fix Item #1b - Panel, General Desktop
Interaction


> On 06 Sep 2001 11:31:57 +0100, Glynn Foster wrote:
> > Kevin Vandersloot wrote:
> > >
> > > Okay, here is a question for all. What about just putting the tasklist
in
> > > the foobar menu, and removing the bottom panel by default? It would
keep
> > > things simple. The one issue I could see would be size constraints for
small
> > > resolutions.
>
> Putting the tasklist on the foobar doesn't work well at low resolutions
> anyway. The tasklist takes up a *lot* of space and doesn't leave room
> for the launchers, or the tasklist gets shoved off to the side. In the
> end I have preferred to have the two thin panels, even at 800x600 (which
> is currently our primary "low resolution" target, we can of course look
> at 640x480, but I don't think its a priority).


Okay, let's just go with two panels. The thing about the tasklist that I
mentioned is that it will be able to size itself to the available space, so
it won't push applets off the panel. The tasklist just needs a small patch
(which I basically have locally) as well as a patch to the panel which was
just committed a few days ago. This way the option 'Only use available
space' will work as expected.

Kevin