On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:25:47AM -0500, scott wrote: > Marco wrote: > > >>On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Marco wrote: > >> > >> > >>>There is no need for *both* toolbar *and* slit in BB, > >>>meaning that for the end user they functionally overlap, [...] > >>> > > > >It *is* absolutely true. > > > Not at all. > > The toolbar tells you where you are, and the slit houses > dock-apps. I use the slit for bbkeys (and others) but keep > it auto-hidden so that i don't have to stare at it all the > time, whereas my toolbar is always visible, so i know what > workspace i'm on and what time/date it is. (and so i can > get to the menu when i'm working with maximized windows) > > I don't see how that's an overlap of functionality...
One thing I really liked about gnome was its generalization of the toolbar/slit into a generallized "panel" that's very customizable. Effectively they let you make what we call a toolbar by making a panel with small icons that is bottom-centered with no autohide and a slit by making a autohide corner panel. And others could have slits in each corner, etc. If we generalize like gnome does we can also get cusomizability to the toolbar too. Would this necessarily bloat blackbox? -- Tony
