From kde-core-devel  Sat Jul 07 08:44:59 2001
From: m_elter () t-online ! de (Matthias Elter)
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 08:44:59 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: RFC: [PATCH] Buttons for applet handles
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On Friday 06 July 2001 17:25, John Firebaugh wrote:
> After reading the n-th bug report submitted by a user who could not fig=
ure
> out how to remove applets from the panel, I did something about it. The
> attached patch adds two small buttons on the outer edge of the applet
> handle: an X button that removes the applet and a triangle button that
> shows the applet menu. In tiny mode, these take up nearly the entire
> handle, so I would probably vote for showing just the menu button. Any
> thoughts? Should this go in?

I was thinking about this some time ago, too. But IMHO it is to easy to h=
it=20
"Remove" by accident. Perhaps we can fix the handle drawing code to make =
it=20
more clear that a menu is available via RMB. A small arrow or something.

Greetings,
Matthias