Re: [Usability] Panel popup proposal

[Boris Goldowsky <boris alum mit edu>]

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 17:44 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: 
> On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 14:50, Daniele Levorato wrote:
> 
> > I have a suggestion about panels popup menu... perhaps someone has 
> > already posted something similar however I don't know :-)
> 
> We have indeed had long discussions about this before... most of the key
> points are captured in this (now closed) bug report:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82642

Unfortunately the fix for that bug did not solve the more general
problem, that when your panel is "full" you can't get at its menu - this
applies to edge panels as well.  Just the other day my kids moved my top
panel to the right side of my screen, and it was nearly impossible to
move it back.  Note that a top panel moved to the side becomes very wide
(to accommodate the text "Applications  Actions" sideways), and thus all
icons within it grow to that size, and so you are left with a panel that
is packed full even if it was quite sparse to begin with.  I ended up
having to remove many of the icons that were on it in order to create
some right- or middle-clickable space to move it back, since I didn't
know the magic keyboard shortcut.

On a related note, perhaps it would be nice to be able to lock a panel
in place, the same way you can lock an applet onto a panel.  It's
amazing what a few random random swishes with a graphics-tablet pen can
do to an unprotected desktop......

Bng
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Boris Goldowsky <boris alum mit edu>