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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: [PATCH] Buttons for applet handles
From:       Ellis Whitehead <kde () ellisw ! net>
Date:       2001-07-07 14:08:27
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Hi John,

The 'remove' button seems too risky to me, too.  It also seems a bit too 
visually messy to me.  It adds 4 up-arrows to make a total of 7 up-arrows and 
1 right-arrow on my kicker display at the moment.  An acceptable compromise 
between visual and functional clarity might be if the arrow (I'd remove the 
'remove' button) appears when the mouse is over the applet handle?

Regards,
Ellis

On Saturday 07 July 2001 04:44 am, Matthias Elter wrote:
> On Friday 06 July 2001 17:25, John Firebaugh wrote:
> > After reading the n-th bug report submitted by a user who could not
> > figure 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 hit
> "Remove" by accident. Perhaps we can fix the handle drawing code to make it
> more clear that a menu is available via RMB. A small arrow or something.
>
> Greetings,
> Matthias

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