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Subject: RE: __panel widget as library?
From: "Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox () mail ! bhi-erc ! com>
Date: 1999-07-30 15:34:06
Message-ID: B1AC724BF81CD311868100600852E50D6591 () ERCEX03
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From: Svanberg Liss [mailto:lisss@ydab.se]
Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 8:28 AM
To: 'gnome-devel-list@gnome.org'
Subject: __panel widget as library?
> > The notepad would be part of your desktop. The notepad text would be
saved
> > internally into the desktop file via bonobo.
>
> I understand the concept, but still do not see the benefits over having
<snip>
> Er... Isn't this like Mickysoft's Active Desktop? The thing that nobody
> uses and everybody wishes would go away? It sounds like a really cool
> idea, but I think it is just really cool in thought, but not in
> practice...
Why not just have the possibility to dock an application to the root window?
I do not know so much about X-Windows programming, but you are able to run
X-lock in the root window, why not other applications?
I dont know if you can have more then one program locking the desktop.
I would not like my desktop to be an Html browser all the time ( like the M$
active desk ), but being able to run something, sometime, in the root, might
be nice.
Wouldnt be nessissary. You would only get a mozilla bonobo object on your
desktop if you place one there.
It does at least look impressive to run a screensaver as wallpaper when M$
people come to visit ;)
Btw. Does GTK+ or Gnomelib contain a "docking" widget somewhere? Like, a
widget where you could dock any kind of topmost window, or at least a
special kind of topmost window.
Gtk has a plug/socket that does that I think
...so you would be able to run one "container" application, and then let a
user add "plugin" applications. Like tearable menus, but with complete
applications instead...
Why not just use bonobo?
// Liss
Kevin
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