Re: 2.4 features to consider

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hey,

On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 10:14, MArk Finlay wrote:
> > > -Panel: move preferences into a top level menu. fix the applications
> > > menu context menu. Applets should inherit background from panel. Should
> > > only be one or two types of panel. Add a help menu. etc....
> > 
> > Yeah, it'd be nice if the menu panel "went away" and was replaced with
> > "menu applets" or something along those lines.  I use the menu panel
> > almost exclusively, but it really feels like an unnecessary "special
> > case" edge panel and it's features are general enough that I should be
> > able to put them on any panel.
> 
> AFAIK this is already being worked on in gnome-panel HEAD. Haven't had a
> chance to test yet.

	Yeah, that's been done. There are issues with backwards compatibility
of the configuration and Fitt's Law compliance but these will get fixed
pretty soon (hopefully).

Good Luck,
Mark.