[5637] in testers
Re: Reminder: Panel positions absolutely, and refreshes on logout
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jul 9 16:20:31 2003
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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Date: 09 Jul 2003 16:20:28 -0400
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 16:18, Bill Cattey wrote:
> Alas, to enable the concept of "all the way to the right" would probably
> introduce nasty amounts of complexity into the panel, so I really can't
> suggest any sensible "fix". I'm sending this note as a reminder that we
> may encounter this sort of issue from users if they have displays of
> various sizes. Also, I might be wrong. There might be a clever and
> simple solution.
Well, GNOME 1 handled this okay; there was a concept of "N pixels from
the right" instead of "N pixels from the left." GNOME 2 has the same
concept but appears to normalize to "N pixels from the left" on save, so
the concept is only useful in the defaults.
We will probably have to suffer with this problem for now, but maybe I
can get a behavior change into a future upstream release of panel.
