xfce with taskbar

[Collins]

On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 21:14:16 +0200 Zoki <zoki.news at linuxix.2y.net>
wrote:
> At 11:33 29/06/02 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> 
>  > You can't tell. But with them on the taskbar, they are mentally
>  > referenced to the same geospatial place and they are organized
>  > according to which one you ran first. So you can easily figure
>  > out which is which without having to cycle through them a la
>  > alt-tab.
> 
> 
> *** Which you can not either because the taskbar tends to shorten
> the open progs indication as far as cutting the names and making
> them unreadable. And after working with several open windows you can
> not know which xterm you started when and which one is showing the
> info you want.
> 
> What everybody seems to forget, probably too much used to KDE (and
> Windows maybe) is that Linux (and XFCE) let you configure several
> tty's which you can acces through the XFCE bar. You can have almost
> as many as you want and organize your desktop to the way you work.
> 
> Example: Main, Mail, Internet, Admin, Logs, System...
> 
> That are the tty's I have set up and thusly the taskbar is not of
> life importance. Further more Llama's right-click menu trick works
> very well with such a setup.
> 
> Let us drain and adjust the features available before spending time
> and energy inventing something which is of a questionable use.
> 

I find it mildly amusing to summarize the results of this thread:

1) A person asks a perfectly valid question - where can I find a WM
with a taskbar?  I like using a taskbar.

2) A few respond with suggestions to the point.

3) Almost all others take it upon themselves to convince that person
that such a feature is basically worthless, that no sensible person
would use it,  and that their somewhat inexact workarounds for this
feature are the only way to fly.

I have posted on my corkboard at work a Potshots cartoon (now yellow
with age):
	A person is staring across the expanse of the Grand Canyon.  There 
	appears to be a person on the other canyon rim.  The person on the 
	near side says:  "Come over to my side.  The view is much clearer
	from here."

I wish Michael the best in his search for a taskbar.  I happen to have
found the one I prefer to use.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD?
gentoo(since 01/01/01) 2.4.18+(ext3) xfce-sylpheed-mozilla