Panel offenders

[Guillaume Pothier]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> i see that some applet still screw up when added in the panel, a thing i would
> like to have for 4.2 is a good behaviour of all the shipped as default ones,
> from a quick test the offenders aren't many and solutions could be pretty
> simple (enough to be "bugfixes, eheh:")
>
> twitter     popupapplet? maybe anicer way should be to put the input text box
> in the panel and twits in the popup, but would require way more code
>
> dictionary     popupapplet  more or less same considerations as twitter applet
>
> nowplaying    some options: popupthing as usual or display just the current
> track or display just play/stop buttons (only buttins would be the saner?)
>
> browser: popupapplet, don't see much other solutions, maybe doesn't have much
> of a point to be in a panel but just be sure it doesn't screw up everything :)
>
> calendar   popupapplet (should have the icon modified to display the date or
> just display the date in the panel and no popup?)
>
> all the two rss things:
> news: popupapplet, using webkit it's a bit tricky, or perhaps display only and
> only one in the panel (oh, and vertical panels problem :/)
>
> rssnow: also here just display a single news source, without titles or
> anything, to use less vertical space as possible, not sure if it's easily
> doable without a too big reorganication

I would add Grid to this list, it currently messes up the panel when
added to it.
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