xfce with taskbar

[Michael Hipp]

On Saturday 29 June 2002 02:14 pm, Zoki wrote:

> *** 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.

Yes, but even with KDE's crowded screen you have to get up to about dozen 
before this happens and even then you can see what the app is from the 
icon. And it's still faster than the right click, move and then click again 
(Llama's method).

> 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.

I didn't understand any of this. I think of ttys = serial ports. Or clunky 
automatic typewriters that put out weather reports on yellow paper. Are you 
talking about the little menu's that pop up from the icons on the xfce 
panel? They're start menus, not task selectors.

> Let us drain and adjust the features available before spending time and
> energy inventing something which is of a questionable use.

Invention = new idea or new creation. Hardly. The taskbar is a proven and 
established part of the gui toolkit. Gnome, KDE, windows, and probably half 
of the me-too WMs have it. The use isn't even slightly questionable. It's a 
productivity enhancer. Arguing for the elimination of vi would have more 
logical substance to it.

Michael