On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 14:55 +0100, Estradin Solaris wrote: > Why not have two different kinds of panels? The "System Panel" (home of > menu-applets, menus, > system-wide notifications, etc...) and the "Desktop Panel" (home of > app-switchers, window-switchers, app-launchers, desktop-switchers, > etc, etc...). Maybe calling them both 'panels' would still be wrong, > but you know what I mean. Anyway, maybe we would be sacrificing a bit > of customisability (is that a word??), but it would make the user > experience a bit more uniform... I don't know.
Well, that's kind of what we had in the GNOME 2.0 days, when we had a 'menu panel' (which could only go at the top of the screen, and always had the Applications/Actions menus on it), and ordinary panels. Admittedly there were no restrictions on what applets you could add to which panel-- maybe that would have made the distinction clearer (although I still suspect not). But in general, people found the idea of a panel that was similar-but-different to be confusing and constraining. Hence it was turned into an ordinary panel that you could just add a 'menu applet' to, as most distros have done ever since. > Anyway, about filing the bug... I'm ashamed to say this, but I'm > rather new to the list and have never ever filed a bug on *anything*, > so I would very thankfully accept any help. First off you'll need a bugzilla account then-- head over to http://bugzilla.gnome.org and click "Open a new bugzilla account" to set one up. Once your password has been mailed to you, go back to bugzilla.gnome.org and click the "Simple bug assistant" link-- it should be reasonably obvious what to do after that :) But feel free to ask for help if it isn't... if you know how to use IRC, you'll probably get the quickest help there (on #gnome at irc.gnome.org). Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
