Panel layout

[Charlie Kravetz]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 16:39:55 +0000
Vincent <mailinglists at vinnl.nl> wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> I'm currently in 10.10 in a virtual machine, and I must say, as the first
> thing I noticed, the theme looks really nice.
> 
> I had a question about the current panel layout though. How has that been
> arrived at? I currently see a large, semi-transparent bottom panel that
> autohides, a main menu that has a really small button, and a CPU graph or
> something on the panel. Is there a design rationale behind that or is this
> all still up to change?
> 
> Anyway, I like what I see until now :)

We kind of threw it all under "Default launchers for Natty Narwhal"
thread. We are going to discuss the launchers in the meeting thursday,
2011-02-10, before we finalize the panels. Since we have much more
leeway with the panels in Xfce 4.8, we are trying to take advantage of
it.

The icons do grow with the panel size, but the text appears fixed in
size again. I tried growing the panels to 120px, but the text stayed
the same size, so if we can get away with less text and more icons,
that would be a better way to go at this point, perhaps.

- -- 
Charlie Kravetz 
Linux Registered User Number 425914          [http://counter.li.org/]
Never let anyone steal your DREAM.           [http://keepingdreams.com]
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux)

iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNTYOwAAoJEFNEIRz9dxbAwqAIAK3cN/vUrFt5q0u59/ha8awP
uRy2dhCiXbIeQOq0vvX6RuIqNC252UFeYyaiT5jdZxGSR/nFIfGQzb0sW7qv69Xr
yWFpXiwt+w+I955AVn5DurTjikbqY0s+jnoLLyRFh8x8LyFQSAGPdx5ej6CPvvNE
MFTQDh35XyVh7eIWRvTHJtoJTt048D/vOuyaB/or9420M2IK1pIAHHBbTR/FqxFn
MSEdqLBS/msG+a5HAK27NScPndB8yd7tZ839ry1rZ8CkdCmPPeJ/HEq5BicYOiB2
3XuwpsQoIAfwhsgIoKuyhreUHQZsYfYg6+pSRJwGaA+xvHvMIAdrl9M3VcJ7BII=
=I7zP
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----