Re: [Usability]Re: User interface suggestion for panels

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 05:55, Sinzui Kobalt wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 19:47, Luis Villa wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 17:02, William McVey wrote:
> > > 4.  The Dock ignores Fitts's Law  
> > > (Fitt's law is described at 
> > > http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html#fitts's%20law)
> > > 
> > > Even when the panel has been configured to:
> > >     -	not have hide buttons,
> > > 
> > >     -	to make the buttons flush with the panel edge, and
> > > 
> > >     -	to have 0 padding between the applets and the panel border
> > > 
> 
> I think this a version/distribution problem.  My panels are configured
> as described and It does conform to Fitt's Law.  I'm running RedHat
> 7.0/7.2 Ximian Gnome. This problem was reported over 6 months ago, check
> the list archive for more details.  If I recall correctly, the problem
> was happen on Sun.

No, Ximian patched this. It wasn't in vanilla GNOME. And GNOME2 is
rather different. If Ximian fixes this again, it'd be great if the
patches got into GNOME cvs this time :-)

-Seth