From kde-core-devel  Sun Apr 30 22:32:19 2000
From: m_elter () t-online ! de (Matthias Elter)
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 22:32:19 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: kicker positioning fast hack to obey bland law of fitts
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On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Dirk A . Mueller wrote:
> On Sam, 29 Apr 2000, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> > Good point. Perhaps moving the one at the 'K' end so that it's next
> > to that at the other end ?
>
> my idea: hide the panel just like the windows one. scrolling it that way
> off the screen is much faster and more logical for the user. it also takes
> much longer to access the hidden panel as you have to click (no
> auto-unhide) and then wait a pretty long time (imagine that unnecessary
> animation over a network connection. That looks ugly!).

This will be implemented, even good old kpanel had this auto-hide feature. 
The animations will of course be configurable (enabled/disabled and speed).

> I don't see an advantage in current scrolling method. is there any?

The panel looks somewhat strange without the hide buttons. Thats perhaps 
because I'm used to have them from kpanel. By the way, you can disable them 
now. Have a look at kcmkicker.

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Matthias Elter
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