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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: ANNOUNCE: Docking
From:       Christoph Neerfeld <Christoph.Neerfeld () bonn ! netsurf ! de>
Date:       1997-12-31 10:50:00
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On 31-Dec-97 Stefan Taferner wrote:
>At 21:48 30.12.1997 +0100, Coolo wrote:
>>
>>the volume control is the only one by default.
>>I have also the Hercules tools and a moon phase tool there (if nobody
>>volunteers, I would port an application myself ;)
>
>IMO, as soon as there are more than 4 docked programs the whole
>scenery looks pretty overloaded.
>
>An example for bad docking features is the display configuration tool in
>Win95 for some vendor specific drivers. Why the heck does somebody
>want to have a "change display properties" button there ?

I think most programs should be usable without a docking window and should
provide a configuration option to disable the window. Let the user choose
which programs should dock to her/his panel.

Regards,

Chris.

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Christoph Neerfeld <Christoph.Neerfeld@bonn.netsurf.de>

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