Default location of panel

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Saturday 02 February 2008, Olivier Goffart wrote:
> Now it is possible to configure the location of the panel, and have
> vertical panel.

well, it has been for a while ...

> I was wandering if having a vertical panel by default when we have a wide
> screen would be a good idea (attached patch)

i'm running with this right now.. it's interesting. notes:

* to make it useful for the taskbar, it needs to be wider. making the panel 
wider results in really, really big applets (e.g. battery). so this exposes 
something we need to work on: Vertical form factor appropriateness in 
applets.

* popup locations seem mildly broken

* being that this is different, many people will by default dislike it (even 
once we get the applets behaving right). we should trial this and get as much 
feedback as early as possible

* your patch violates the coding style. all blocks, even one liners, must have 
{}s

personally, i'm cool with this patch going in so that we can test this 
configuration (i like how it exposes some shortcomings that must get 
addressed) and get feedback. it may not make it through to 4.1 depending on 
feedback and other issues.... 

> Of course the default size of the panel need to be ajusted also.

yep... i've got it set to 100px here and that seems to work ok.

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