[Panel-devel] applet config

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday 25 October 2007, Petri Damstén wrote:
> On Thursday 25 October 2007 10:47:04 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > is this really what a user expects? what is the use case here exactly?
>
> In temperature monitor (and soon hhd monitor) user can select what
> temperatures to monitor and can give names to temperatures. If user removes
> the monitor and starts it again he has to do that all over again. I don't
> want to save this globally, so user can have two applets for two different
> harddisk for example. Of course in some applets it might be better to just
> erase configuration, but in this case I think not.

so what you want is the ability to store an applet for later use again.

i think that's a very different use case than having magic that re-uses the 
last configured state of an applet when removed.

being to store/restore applets would be a nice feature. not required for 4.0 
though.

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