Re: Revisiting the GNOME Panel in general...

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="James M. Cape">

> I'd also like to note that one of the nice features of MacOS X is the fact
> that the little notification icons at least behave as though they are
> integrated items in the top menubar. Perhaps the default widget could be
> coaxed via an XSetting (e.g. "panel-notification-menu-active" or
> something) to draw itself as a selected menuitem and fire the widget's
> "popup-menu" signal when necessary?

Or it could just *be* a menu item... Why are those things "any kind of
widget" anyway? :-)

- Jeff

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