Re: Drawers in Metacity

[Alan <alan ufies org>]

> My implementation is somewhat different than OS/X.  On OS/X, drawers
> fill the entire height of their parent window.  In my implementation,
> you can resize drawers vertically, and their maximum size is constrained
> by the parent window.  My implementation puts an actual titlebar on the
> drawer.  Since they don't fill the parent window height, you can move
> them up and down along the side of the parent window.

We [me] demand.....
                some SCREENSHOTS!

/monty python

> My implementation was just a prototype I played around with a few months
> ago.  It has plenty of problems, but nothing unsurmountable.  I'm just
> throwing this out for discussion.  I'm not really formally proposing it.

I always thought that it was more a GTK implementation than something in 
Metacity, but not being a gnome hacker I'll just smile and nod and say "good 
on you" :)

Personally I think that this is a great idea.  I loved drawers the first
time I saw them in a news aggregator under os/x (netnewswire?), and then
being used to hold the mailbox tree in the Mail application.  I thought 
that they were a very cool and useful UI element that would be a nice 
addition to the GTK/GNOME toolkit, assuming they aren't patented by apple 
of course.

Alan

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