Default location of panel

[Sven Burmeister]

On Sonntag, 3. Februar 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> * 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.

How is this supposed to work? Should the user be able to set the size and the 
applets are arranged accordingly? I.e. on a 100px wide panel the clock would 
take 50px width and the battery another 50px will and be placed next to it 
rather than below it? Or will applets always be as wide as the panel, even if 
they don't really need to be that wide.

Maybe it would make sense to tell the applets one size they should try to fit 
in rather than using the panel-width/height for it. That way a vertical panel 
would submit a height of e.g. and although there would be more space 
width-wise, applets would adapt to it and could be placed next to each other.

Sven