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Re: Damn, still that ugly taskbar!
by Aaron J. Seigo on Wednesday 31/Oct/2007, @08:50

"afaik they've disagreed with nuno's vision for the panel"

this just keeps cropping up everywhere, doesn't it?

what we're not going to be doing is putting the panel in the center of the screen with the launcher interface button (e.g. kickoff/kmenu/lancelot/whatever) in the middle of that.

the look is a completely different issue and no we won't be keeping the look of the current panel. it's ... ugly. and we all know that. it was a quick hack to get a panel there to get the rest of the stuff needed for proper panels in place.

and yes, if you don't like what we come up with you can always write your own Containment plugins.

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Re: Damn, still that ugly taskbar!
by Johann Ollivier-Lapeyre on Wednesday 31/Oct/2007, @09:28

"the look is a completely different issue and no we won't be keeping the look of the current panel. it's ... ugly."

Happy to read that from you. I admit i started to be afraid reading this post ;)

"what we're not going to be doing is putting the panel in the center of the screen with the launcher interface button (e.g. kickoff/kmenu/lancelot/whatever) in the middle of that."

I'm not talking about 4.0 (time...), but with the "Plasma power", this idea, not perfect for now, could be experimented and matured... don't you think?

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Re: Damn, still that ugly taskbar!
by Chani on Wednesday 31/Oct/2007, @10:05

if you want to experiment with it, write your own containment.
isn't that the point of plasma? :) everyone has the chance to make their own stuff and play with it. which things end up being the defaults depends on what actually ends up being usable.
or, y'know, you could help make the existing panel suck less for 4.0... whatever.

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Re: Damn, still that ugly taskbar!
by Johann Ollivier-Lapeyre on Wednesday 31/Oct/2007, @13:18

"isn't that the point of plasma? :)"

In part yes, this is why Plasma is a great piece of software :D

"which things end up being the defaults depends on what actually ends up being usable."

Yes, but it depend also of leaders's view like Aaron, even if at end it is usable. If for him, this is a big "never in the center", this could just be a waste of time. Hopefuly, he is not like that, as i know, so i'm confident to have great defaults which fit the users's need.

Anyway, it seems after some talk on IRC there are already some guys working to "make the existing panel suck less for 4.0", so i prefer to continue to make the games suck less ;)

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Re: Damn, still that ugly taskbar!
by david on Thursday 01/Nov/2007, @07:15

"what we're not going to be doing is putting the panel in the center of the screen with the launcher interface button (e.g. kickoff/kmenu/lancelot/whatever) in the middle of that."

why not? the panel in the center is cool, the k-menu in the middle, don't know...

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