From kde-devel Fri Aug 20 10:47:54 1999 From: Boris Povazay Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 10:47:54 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Kicker - a new framework for a KDE desktop panel X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=93514864611221 Matthias Ettrich wrote: > - The Item area is separated with a splitter from the integrated > taskbar. With that splitter, every user can individually distribute > the rare panel space. You can hide all buttons except the K-button > and have a pure taskbar, for example. Or you can move the splitter > to the very right and have no taskbar at all. > > - If an area becomes too small (the item area or the taskbar), it > provides two arrow buttons for scrolling. So everything remains > accessable on all screen resolutions with any number of items or > tasks. So You do not want to provide the "two bar look"? By now it was easy to have one bar that does correspond to the display and one that is responsible for control. (Right now kpanel is a bit confusing, since it does show the virtual desktops in the "work" instead of the display area). It would be good to have the ability of two bars available. Those could also be docked into each other, as You´ve described above. The other thing is the scroll-function: Don´t You think this bar should provide easy access to the programs running? Scrolling up and down to find what You´re looking for is TOTALLY opposive to user needs! Instead the bar should resize itself, so that no other manipulation is needed! ciao BoP -- http://kde.jouh.at - bp@jouh.at DI Boris Povazay