On Sep 24, 2007, at 3:00 PM, Alex Jones wrote: > ... > What do we want from the next version of GNOME Panel? > > Do we want to evolve it or just replace the dependency on Bonobo for > now? > > I think that unifying the concept of applets and more heavyweight > "widgets" might be beneficial, unless anyone can think of any good > reason why not to. Any GDesklets developers here? > ...
Besides the lack of a global menu bar, which John Stowers mentioned, another irritant interaction-wise is inconsistency in behavior between panel applets. Some applets do something on a single click, others don't, and there's no way to tell which just by looking. Some applets do something on a double click, others don't, and there's no way to tell which just by looking. Some applets open a menu or menu-like control, but they differ in whether they make it look like a menu, and if you mouse down on the wrong one you can't slide over to the correct one like you can with a normal menu bar. It would be really neat if the panel could make these behaviors consistent. Cheers -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
