gnome-panel (does havoc read this list? ;-)

[Ryan G.]

Hi all,

Wonder if the gnome-panel is going to get any needed attention soon... 
I'm configured to have things looking like osx's dock, i.e. autohide,
no expand, menus and launchers added.  Now here's what I'm seeing, how
bout everyone else?

-Every menu added to the panel has the mouse over lable "Main Menu"

-Show hide buttons option should remove all decoration from the panel
edge (what use are the handles), what does one do if they want NO
decorations at the edges of the panel?

-Drawers are completely buggy. if panel hiding is enabled, drawers open
up without being clicked... this one is quite annoying since it
prevents me from using drawers!

-drawer_autoclose toggle in gconf-editor does nothing

-order of icons/launchers/applets change randomly even if "locked"

-occasionally panel gets "stuck unhid" need to open and close a menu to
re-hide it

-Unable to edit menu items, get an;

"Cannot save changes to launcher
Details: Error writing file
'applications:/Multimedia/planetccrma-rtmix.desktop': Read-only file
system"

-some settings seem to get lost periodically (i.e. auto_hide_size)

Maybe I'm spoiled by osx's dock.  Even so these panel bugs seem to be
getting NO attention on the list.

Thanks all,
-ry

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[rg]

> Maybe I'm spoiled by osx's dock.  Even so these panel bugs seem to be
> getting NO attention on the list.
>   
>  
Customization and Art matters seem to be a low priority here.

rg

>   
>

[Andrew Farris]

Supply more than dissatisfaction with the list content, you make it
worse.  If you want to see information about a topic, put it here.  Your
emails ARE the list.

I have been having issues with gnome-panel drawers, in particular the
items I add to them become inactive (no properties, no button, no way to
remove them, the context menu contains main drawer properties instead). 
This occurs after the first time I use the new item, prior to which I
can edit the properties or move the item in the drawer.  As issues like
this are specific to gnome, it would be a good idea to bring them up
there first however.  An issue like that is *most* likely in gnome and
not redhat's packaging.

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 18:06, rg wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  >Maybe I'm spoiled by osx's dock.  Even so these panel bugs seem to be
>  >getting NO attention on the list.
>  >  
>  >
>  Customization and Art matters seem to be a low priority here.
>  
>  rg 
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[rg]

> Supply more than dissatisfaction with the list content, you make it
> worse.  If you want to see information about a topic, put it here.  Your
> emails ARE the list.
>  
hey, my comment was simply a statement of fact - not a complaint. 
 Things that don't work naturally take precedence over things that don't 
look right.  So hold off on the scolding.

rg


> On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 18:06, rg wrote:
>   
>
> >>Maybe I'm spoiled by osx's dock.  Even so these panel bugs seem to be
> >>getting NO attention on the list.
> >> 
> >>
> >>      
> >>
> >Customization and Art matters seem to be a low priority here.
> >
> >rg
> >    
> >

[Alexander Larsson]

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 02:47, Ryan G. wrote:
>  Hi all,
>  
>  Wonder if the gnome-panel is going to get any needed attention soon... 
>  I'm configured to have things looking like osx's dock, i.e. autohide,
>  no expand, menus and launchers added.  Now here's what I'm seeing, how
>  bout everyone else? 
Did you report any of these problems to the upstream (gnome) bugzilla?
Thats the main place gnome bug reports should go, unless its clearly a
redhat packaging/artwork bug, or a major showstopper that we have to be
aware of. We can't fix all bugs in all parts of gnome ourselves.

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[Ben Steeves]

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 21:47, Ryan G. wrote:

>  -Show hide buttons option should remove all decoration from the
> panel
>  edge (what use are the handles), what does one do if they want NO
>  decorations at the edges of the panel? 
I posted an RFE in the GNOME Bugzilla asking that the handles (which are
new in GNOME 2.4 IIRC -- in GNOME 2.2, you used to be able to turn off
everything -- and then you couldn't manipulate the dock, get to
properties, etc.) take on the attributes of the rest of the panel
background (e.g., if you make the panel transparent, the handles should
go transparent too).  

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[Alan Cox]

>  Maybe I'm spoiled by osx's dock.  Even so these panel bugs
> seem to be
>  getting NO attention on the list. 
Are they all in bugzilla and have you put them into gnoem bugzilla at all ?