Re: 2.3 Proposed Features

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hi Lars,

On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 17:41, Lars Weber wrote:
> Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie> wrote:
> > 	* New toplevel panel widget:
> > 	    + No more panel types, just a single panel which you can
> > 	      configure to the same effect as the old panel types.
> 
> One idea I always liked (once proposed by Calum Benson IIRC) was to have
> panel types be changeable by simply dragging the panel to symbolic
> locations, e.g. the bottom right for a bottom right corner panel or the
> screen center for a floating panel, etc.
> 
> The details would likely be very difficult to get right.  But if this
> could get done in a way that in the end just _feels natural_ I think it
> would be pretty awesome!

	That's essentially what this is about - e.g. you move the panel towards
the center of one edge of the screen and it snaps to the center. It then
acts like an old corner panel positioned in the center - i.e. if you add
an applet it will stay in the center.

Good Luck,
Mark.