Re: Information Applet Thingy

[Sean Middleditch <sean middleditch iname com>]

Yes!  Perfect!  That's even better than my original idea that no one seemed to
understand!

Sean Middleditch

On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Matt Greenfield wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Martijn van Beers <martijn@earthling.net>
> To: <gnome-devel-list@gnome.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 11:07 AM
> Subject: Re: Information Applet Thingy
> 
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 06:48:10PM -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > > Correct me if I'm wrong.  A normal applet must ALWAYS be on the panel,
> or be
> > > completely removed, no?  And if you start an applet, it jsut puts it on
> the
> > I don't know what you mean by this exactly, but irssi launches a
> > status applet when it starts up, and removes it again when it is
> > closed.
> > > first available place, on the first panel, even if the panel is full.  I
> run
> > > two panels, and the default panel to place applets is full.
> > > The applets aren't even visible.  I have to manually plave applets on
> >
> > I agree that it would be convenient to be able to control where an
> > applet should be placed, yes.
> 
> An applet 'container' would be the solution, yes?  Sort of like window
> groups in e, except applet groups.  A container that all new applets go
> into, or perhaps just applets that want to go into it.  Then you could
> define multiple containers with perhaps special conditions on them,
> conditions of what type of applets they should attract.  Then you could say
> define a Launchers container,  a Monitors container, etc.
> 
> This would be some nice functionality to go into the panel in HEAD perhaps?
> 
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> 
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