xfce news

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 04:04:15PM -0600, Collins wrote:
>For those of you who use xfce but don't hang out on the xfce list,
>there is now a user contributed taskbar that (IMNSHO) is really slick.
> It only opens manually at present, but it extends from the bottom of
>the panel and works just like equivalent features in kde, etc. 
>Applications you run automatically appear as buttons in the taskbar,
>and you can navigate to the appropriate app by clicking in the taskbar
>or clicking to minimize/restore the app.

The task bar on KDE is one of the reasons I switched to xfce (along with
their dropping some things like being able to specify windows behaviour
like no-decorations and sticky based on text in the title bar).  I have ten
virtual desktops, and typically fifty or so applications running at any
given time so task bars get a bit cluttered and generally useless.

I tend to keep track of specific applications by having them in set places
on a particular desktop, using the ``window shade'' to minimize them into
the title bar when not active.  This makes it easy for me to find a given
application since it's always in the same place, not jumping around on a
task bar.

Bill
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