Constructive feedback from Eugenia

[Richard Moore]

On Friday 12 July 2002 11:48 am, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
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> On Friday 12 July 2002 05:21, Richard Moore wrote:
> > > The point is that Kicker should recognize the need for more space when
> > > it is requested from Taskbar, and it should resize itself when needed
> > > (eg. when new applications need 150 pix in the TaskBar), until it
> > > reaches the boundaries of the screen left and right. Then, and only
> > > then, resize the entries of taskbar itself from 150pix to something
> > > smaller.
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> > Ok, I see what you mean and I don't think you can quite achieve that at
> > the moment.
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> nope, you can't. and it will be somewhat tricky to do due to the
> parent->child layout relationships as they currently are ... note that
> until recently the taskbar didn't handle any sort of resizing on its own at
> all, but just filled whatever it was allowed to (making the extension
> somewhat annoyingly limited). i'm just about done some file dialog things
> and then will proceed on to seeing what i can do about this.

Not necessarily - I think it could be handled by modifying the child panel 
extension to include a resize policy that follows the size hint of its 
contents. You could then add a taskbar to this to create the effect. Do you 
think this would work?

Cheers

Rich.