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Bug 124764 - RFE: floating panel handles should match the rest of the panel
RFE: floating panel handles should match the rest of the panel
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
: 338654 347198 353615 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-10-16 12:22 UTC by Ben Steeves
Modified: 2020-11-07 12:14 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Ben Steeves 2003-10-16 12:22:55 UTC 
In GNOME 2.4, "floating" panels (i.e., non expanded panels) have handles. 
This is good -- it allows you to drag the panel, access panel properties,
etc.  The problem is that the panel handles are always the deafault system
grey, and this is ugly.  The handles should match the background settings
for the panel.  The user should also have the ability to turn off at least
one of the handles (allowing the user to to turn off both is probably a bad
idea unless you allow some other way to get to the panel properties (middle
click, hotkey, etc)).

With this (hopefully) minor change, GNOME could approach Mac OS X in terms
of "prettiness".  :-)
Comment 1 hh 2003-10-19 17:10:37 UTC 
(adding comment here as this is more or less the same thing as I would
like to have)

I have 4 different panels placed in all 4 corners of the screen. Since
these panels are floating panels they have handle-bars on both the
left and the right side. I would really like to remove the handle-bar
on the side of the screen-edge in each panel, to make it easier to
access the panel-applets I have placed in the corner. (Fitt's Law)

present example:
In my top left corner I have a floating panel which consists of the
menu-line ("applications and actions"). When I send the mouse-cursor
up to that corner and click, I click on the handle-bar instead of the
applications-menu. I need to move the cursor somewhat to the right to
access the menu.

future(?) example:
If I move a floating panel to a corner, and it "docks steady" there,
the handle-bar on the corner-side is automatically removed.
I can then send the mouse-cursor all the way up in that corner, click
and open the applications-menu.
Comment 2 Vincent Untz 2005-06-06 20:53:05 UTC 
Patch in bug 306441.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 306441 ***
Comment 3 Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2005-06-07 18:17:13 UTC 
This is complicated.  The patch in bug 306441 will not fix this -> REOPEN.
Comment 4 Vincent Untz 2006-04-16 08:54:32 UTC 
*** Bug 338654 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Sergej Kotliar 2006-07-11 11:20:56 UTC 
*** Bug 347198 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Vincent Untz 2007-01-15 12:18:28 UTC 
*** Bug 353615 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 André Klapper 2020-11-07 12:14:06 UTC 
bugzilla.gnome.org is being replaced by gitlab.gnome.org. We are closing all
old feature requests in Bugzilla which have not seen updates for many years.

If you still use gnome-panel and if you are still requesting this feature in a currently supported version of GNOME (currently that would be 3.38), then please feel free to report it at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-panel/-/issues/

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry it could not be implemented.