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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    [RFC] Kicker issues
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2004-12-28 21:05:51
Message-ID: 41D1CAAF.1010300 () acm ! org
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I ran out of room in my top panel so I have rearranged my setup.

Note that all of my panels are Auto Hide (small screen).

I am using the: "External Taskbar" with the maximum size of 400 at the 
bottom left position.  This has two issues:

Although it extends 400 pixels along the bottom, it will unhide only if 
the mouse pointer is moved to the left end of the bottom of the screen. 
  This is counter intuitive.  I expect that it should act as though it 
was in the lower left corner and moving the mouse pointer to the bottom 
of the screen within the Size of the left end will make it appear.

I would like to be able to set the type size to a larger value (which 
will also mean that a larger maximum size is also needed).

After removing the TaskBar from the bottom I have a panel with only the 
Pager so I shrank the panel to fit it.  I would like to be select a 
larger size than 32 pixels for this panel without having the Pager go to 
two rows.

I have the clock (and the Aquarium :-D) on a separate 128 pixel panel in 
the top right in addition to a full width Small top panel.  It would 
help if I could set the priority of the two panels so that if they were 
both visible that the one with the clock would always be on the bottom. 
  Or, be able to set it so that it only appears if I put the mouse 
cursor in the upper left corner of the screen.

I have two panels that extend to the upper left corner and they both 
unhide if you move the mouse cursor to the upper left corner.  I have 
filed a bug report about this specific issue:

  	http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95820

But I see these other issues as usability questions.

I was also considering if click to hide/unhide using the edge of the 
screen (middle button perhaps) would be useful for hidden panels, or if 
it would be possible to use the Hide Buttons to hide/unhide and still 
have the panel cover part of the desktop when you unhide it.  Actually, 
I have no icons on the right side (top) of the screen where the short 
panel with the clock unhides but if I don't hide it, I can't have icons 
at the top of the left side of the screen.

Yes, I am talking about more options.  I don't think that more options 
are the problem; the problem is finding the correct place in the Control 
Center to set the options.

-- 
JRT
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