Re: Major issues with window list applet

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Luis Villa <louie ximian com> writes:
> On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 13:35, Kevin Vandersloot wrote:
> > Right now the new tasklist just works.
> > It's beautiful in it's simplicity :)
> 
> The 'window list occupies all available space' thing, unfortunately,
> doesn't just work. Things that look like empty space should be empty
> space, and in the current setup with window list it isn't, which
> confuses people quite a bit. This has been filed as a bug at least four
> times already; see bug 72335 for the 'canonical' version.
> 

This is just a bug though, not a design flaw.

Alex - why do we have to use GTK-style request/allocate? The cheesy
hack is to just have API for applets to get the current panel size.
Or we could have Java-style ask-for-desired-width-at-a-given-height
sizing.

Havoc