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

[Brian Crescimanno <darksheer fotographix com>]

On Wed, 2001-09-05 at 21:30, Kevin Vandersloot wrote:
> > > Default Panel / Applets
> > >
> > > * Similar to Ximian GNOME 1.4 setup.
> > > * Two panels - Foobar on top, edge panel (tiny- 24 pixels) on bottom.
> >
> > Agreed.  It's a great set up which combines the windows / Mac interfaces
> > (to a point) and draws on their best points.
> 
> 
> 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.

I don't personally like the tasklist on the foobar menu.  Other's may
disagree, but unless it's redesigned to fit in with the foobar panel
(and not a normal panel) it doesn't look right.


> > > * Foobar is place to put launchers / random applets (vendor specific).
> > > * Clock format should be 7:00 PM Wed Sep 05 (patch needed to add the
> > > date)
> >
> > I disagree.  Though having the date would be useful, I prefer having it
> > in a tooltip and only having the time up there under normal
> > circumstances.  Though, I suppose I could see the date being useful, so
> > I suppose it's basically up to everyone else on this one. ;)
> 
> Well for people that don't use a mouse their isn't really a way to get the
> date (short of running evolution or some other calender program). I think it
> is also useful to dislplay and their is plenty of space right now on the
> foobar. For me I often use my computer to get the date and I don't like
> having to position the mouse over the clock to get to the tooltip.


Understandable, and agreed.  However, as with everything, it should be
pretty configurable.


> > > * Edge panel contains tasklist
> > > * tasklist should be dynamic and expand to fill in extra space (Needs a
> > > small patch to make the tasklist have the ability to expand to extra
> > > sapce)
> >
> > Personally, I prefer my task list the way it is.  However, the tasklist
> > applet does have the option of expanding to fill the extra space, so
> > this functionality is already available.  I could see how it could be
> > really useful to some users, so I don't object to changing it as a
> > default (just as long as the option to change it back remains). :)
> 
> Right now the tasklist will not expand into extra space. So if I put the
> size to be 400 and the panel is 800 the tasklist will never expand beyond
> 800. I could set the size to be 900 and it would shrink to 800,  but
> obviously that is not the best solution. The tasklist should be able to work
> well for all resolutions.
>
> I also meant to say that these should just be the default tasklist settings.
> I'll change that to be more clear in the next revision.


Ahh, I misunderstood what you meant.  Yes, I completely agree with you
on your point then.


> > > * Nautilus should provide feedback for launching applications and
> > > opening new windows (especially from the desktop).
> >
> > I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this, could you elaborate please?
> 
> Yah. User double clicks on My Home on the desktop. Nautilus takes ages for
> the window to appear. User double clicks again etc. Same thing goes if I
> have a launcher for an application on the desktop.
> 

Ahh...well, you heard my comments on that bit already then. :)

Brian