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Bug 72792 - Menu panel is not movable
Menu panel is not movable
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 72890
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: panel
1.5.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-02-27 07:30 UTC by msaavedra
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description msaavedra 2002-02-27 07:30:30 UTC 
For some reason, it is impossible to move the menu panel away from the top
edge of the screen. I'm not sure if it is like this by design or because of
a bug, but either way it is a bad thing. I really like the functionality of
the menu panel, but I hate having panels along the top of the screen. This
inflexibility drives me crazy.
Comment 1 Luis Villa 2002-02-27 21:26:54 UTC 
This is really an enhancement, not a bug. At least, very borderline :)
Comment 2 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-03-07 06:32:51 UTC 
Just another reason to get rid of it all together.
Comment 3 msaavedra 2002-03-07 07:55:53 UTC 
I agree that the menu panel should be dropped and its features should
be merged into the regular panel (as applets perhaps?). That is not
going to happen before Gnome 2.0, though, and is way beyond the scope
of this bug. It would be best to concentrate on little improvements
like this one right now, I think.
Comment 4 Thomas Vander Stichele 2002-04-12 14:43:43 UTC 
What exactly are the features for which this top panel is needed ? I
have (in gnome 2 beta 3) a menu applet that contains all the features
I need.  It looks like the top panel is using the same code as that
menu applet (apart from different Actions menus, what's up with that ???).
What exactly is blocking a "don't show this panel" option ? What
hidden functionality is there ?
Comment 5 msaavedra 2002-04-12 21:22:42 UTC 
There is still one way the menu panel is better than the normal panel.
The menu panel does not put insensitive space along the edge of the
screen. In the regular edge panel, mouse clicks on the edge of the
screen are not passed on to the applet that occupies that area of the
panel. For a discussion on this problem, see bug 73074. If that bug is
fixed, then I see no reason to keep a special menu panel.
Comment 6 Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller 2002-05-01 11:27:10 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 72890 ***