Dear Martin, > I put together two sketches of possible panel layouts (they are made in > inkscape so in reality the rendering would look most likely different), > one is sporting the one panel approach, the other one plays with two > panels. Both contain the applets we (more or less) agreed upon. > > The basic ideas for the applet separation between panels is this: > * clock, desktop switcher, and lock screen+log out should be in corners > (I think it is more compact and improves their accessibility) > * menus and window buttons in panel are like menus and tabs in windows, > so they should be in top panel > * launchers, trash, show-desktop, system tray, mixer are all > represented by icons so optically they're similar + they could in > theory profit from being slightly bigger > * both system-tray and window-list tend to grow big so it's good idea > to have them in different panels, if possible > > The sketches and some more comments are available on the following wiki > page: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mso/XFCE/Panel
Both layouts look fine so far. But a few things depends on the target user. E.g. I personally do not often use workspaces, so I put the workspace switcher somwhere where it does not annoy me. Instead I still use the 'show desktop' button quite often. But as said, it depends a lot on the end user. A few years ago, Christoph came up with a layout that looked quite similar to the default GNOME one, which I personally liked a lot, and I still think it would be great to offer this option. There will be a lot of ppl looking for a alternative to GNOME Shell and it would be cool if we can make then happy with Xfce. Greets Marcus _______________________________________________ xfce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
