Re: enhancing ipks

It does all of the things you list...

It also can hide itself off the bottom or edges of the screen.
Can be positioned on any edge/corner of the screen.

It also does drag and drop of icons from the menus to the panel,
or to a desktop manager.

Jacob, am I missing anything?
                                - Jim

> From: Carl Worth <cworth@east.isi.edu>
> Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 10:14:59 -0400
> To: jg@pa.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
> Cc: familiar@handhelds.org
> Subject: Re: [Familiar] enhancing ipks
> -----
> Jim Gettys writes:
> > Here's some traffic on the state of the Gnome panel. Dunno what the right
> > thing is to do under the circumstances. We'll need to fix gtk's menus
> > in any case....
> > - Jim
>
> Jim,
>
> I confess that I have never played with Gnome that much. What are the
> features that the gnome panel provides and what things do you think
> are really necessary on the iPAQ?
>
> My guess without knowing much of anything is that it probably makes
> sense to rewrite the panel with its functionality broken up into
> several small programs, (to maximize modularity and flexibility).
>
> Here are things I would assume are provided by the Gnome panel:
>
> * A menu of programs.
>
> This could be reimplemented as an external program launcher.
>
> * A desktop/workspace pager.
>
> Not sure if this is worth the screen real estate or not.
>
> * A "dock", (ie. a program allowing other programs to render
> themselves onto a common section of the screen).
>
> This is probably the most useful thing for the iPAQ that the
> Gnome panel provides. I definitely agree with the architectural
> decision that this should be provided by a separate program
> rather than being a part of the window manager for example.
>
> So what else does the Gnome panel do? If I haven't missed much, then I
> imagine we could simply code up a Program Launcher and a Dock, (or
> adapt pieces from the panel as needed).
>
> Then again, I may have completely missed the boat here.
>
> -Carl

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Jim Gettys
Technology and Corporate Development
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