[Panel-devel] peer review clarification

[Chani]

on that note, I guess I should mention that I'm working to squish bugs in the 
systray and taskbar and so on.

the systray seemed to only have a bare minimum of code, and google wasn't 
finding me as much documentation as I'd like on how a systray is supposed to 
work, so I just made it remove items properly - other features can wait, I 
suppose.
I noticed that it uses a hbox layout; am I right in assuming that this really 
should depend on the formfactor? once we can make vertical panels, we'll want 
the systray to adapt to that... er, but first, I guess it would be useful to 
have the systray widgets over the panel where they belong, instead of 
hovering mysteriously above it, and I guess the applet needs to expand as the 
widget does, so that the panel knows the systray is taking up more space... 
umm.. can the panel properly handle expanding widgets? right now it seems 
like the taskbar will just expand as much as it can, and if I move the clock, 
I have to be careful not to move it under the taskbar's invisible territory.

that brings me to another problem: I don't like how the taskbar is invisible 
and unmovable and generally uncontrollable. I like to have control over my 
applets (remember, in kde3 the taskbar can be removed). that idea for magical 
hover buttons for the desktop might be useful once it's implemented, but that 
doesn't take care of other formfactors afaik. what about doing something like 
the applet handles in kde3? or just add stuff to the right-click menu and 
pray that the applet *cough*taskbar*cough* doesn't blindly override this.

however it ends up being done... I just want a way to control my desktop. 

also, the last panel patch on this mailing list still hasn't been committed. 
wtf? if nothing happens with that, I might just take it into my own hands 
later today.

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