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

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 19:57, Seth Nickell wrote:
> 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 :-)

i believe owen made gtk2 do this last weekend.

jacob
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