[desktop-discuss] JDS/Gnome Scalability

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Moinak Ghosh wrote:
>
>  You can add a new panel and drag to the right screen edge to make 
> it vertical.
>  Go to panel properties and increase the size to make it fatter. Then add a
>  "Window List" applet to it and you will have a readable vertical list of 
> app
>  tabs.
>
>  The other alternative is to add a "Window Selector" applet that 
> appears as a
>  small button on the panel. Clicking it will bring up a list of the running 
> apps
>  which you can switch to.

Thanks!  Both of these suggestions are quite helpful.  The "Window 
List" is not too helpful since there is a limit imposed on how wide a 
pane can be so only about 12 characters are displayed.  The Window 
Selector is nice since it takes very little space and displays lots of 
text.

Another problem that I am facing is that when I create a launcher, the 
text associated with the launcher only appears when the launcher is an 
icon on the desktop.  When a launcher is in a pane or a drawer, the 
text is not displayed.  Is there a way around this problem?

In CDE's window manager (and all previous window managers I have used) 
it is very easy to create "lanuchers" via single line entries in a 
menu definition file.  There are many specific commands (e.g. start 
xterm on host X) that I need to migrate to launchers.  In order to 
make this feasable, the launcher icon needs to be displayed with text.

Thanks,

Bob
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