Windows 7 and Mac OS panel layouts

[Yousuf Philips]

Hi Team,

The Windows 7-like panel layout has been submitted upstream.
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16604

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 3:03 PM Yousuf Philips <ypharis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Team,
>
> The Mac OS panel layout has been submitted upstream.
> https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16540
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 3:24 AM Yousuf Philips <ypharis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> Haven't used Windows 10 before, but looking at the screenshots, its quite
>> identical to window 7 layout, but also has buttons for cortana search and
>> task view, which isnt something available in Xubuntu, and also has an
>> application menu that is quite different to whisker, which has more of
>> windows 7 feel. Windows 7 also has a 40px panel height, so no difference
>> there, but presume when all the hidpi stuff is sorted out, it will also
>> look good on a 4k screen.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 7:05 PM Eric Curtin <ericcurtin17 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Yousuf,
>>>
>>> Even better if you could contribute to a Windows 10 panel layout (with
>>> Windows 7 being out of support now). :) One thing I notice at least
>>> about the existing panel layouts is that the whisker menu height is
>>> starting to get too small for 1080p and 4k screens. For example
>>> Windows 10 start menu height is a minimum of 40 pixels on a 1080p
>>> screen nowdays. Smaller than that is starting to get hard to
>>> click/see.
>>>
>>> On 02/03/2020, Yousuf Philips <ypharis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi Team,
>>> >
>>> > I would like to contribute panel layouts that mimic Windows 7 (as the
>>> > current Redmond one is mimicking Windows 98) and Mac OS.
>>> >
>>> > The Windows 7 one is more or less straight forward, but i've filed a
>>> few
>>> > bugs to hopefully make it even better.
>>> >
>>> > https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16485
>>> > https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16481
>>> >
>>> > The Mac OS one is a bit more difficult as it would require that
>>> > xfce4-appmenu-plugin and a dock like plank be installed by default and
>>> > xfce-panel-profiles is able to activate and deactivate the dock for the
>>> > profile.
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> > Yousuf Philips
>>> >
>>>
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