This feature was requested by someone running a laptop w/ a low
resolution a while ago. Someone wanted it. =)
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On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 09:06:17AM +0000 or thereabouts, Philip Johnson wrote:
> > Frankly, I'm not quite sure what people will think of
> > the autohide option, or even whether it would get used,
> > so before I make any other changes I'd like to get some
> > feedback/hate mail on it. So if you're one of those crazy
> > folks who can't stand running the same executable for more
> > than a few days, and laughs in the face of bugs even as
> > your X session goes down in flames, swing by
>
> I dunno, but I can't see this as being very useful. What kind of things
> get put in the slit? System monitors (a la gkrellm or windowmaker
> dockapps), maybe an licq window, bbkeys, bbpager, etc.
>
> For the most part, aren't these all things we should want to be able to
> see fairly constantly? If my cpus are starting to overheat, or netscape
> has crashed and is using 50% of my cpus, I think I'd like to know about
> this. If I've just gotten an icq message, I'd like to be able to see
> that it's waiting for me. bbpager is constantly used, so there's no
> sense hiding that, so about the only thing that's regularlily sitting
> in someone's slit that doesn't need viewing is bbkeys..
>
> I can understand having a hide (or remove, possibly?) feature for the
> toolbar though. For many people, it's useless. I know a lot of people
> who want the option of getting rid of it entirely...
>
> Cheers.
