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Xfce4-panel 4.10 Roadmap
That are a bunch of (mostly small) feature requests in bugzilla under the 4.10 milestone. Just some highlights here.
[FINISHED] Deskbar Mode
To make the panel more flexible in vertical mode and also horizontal, it will get 2 new properties: number of rows and a deskbar mode. The rows will give more control over multi button plugins like the window buttons and allows packing “small” plugins in columns. Deskbar is a vertical panel with horizontal orientated plugins, this makes the panel much more efficient on large displays.
Work is done in the nick/deskbar branch and Andrzej's Github branch
Completed: 100%
Assignee: Nick, Andrzej
Difficulty: Moderate
[FINISHED] Merge actions and session plugins
There are a couple of plugins in Xfce that handle the session. The panel has the actions plugin, xfce4-session the xfsm-logout-plugin and there is the xfswitch-plugin. Since this is all very generic, it makes sense to put this in a single plugin to avoid confusion for users.
Completed: 100% 81a2d7
Assignee: Nick
Difficulty: Easy
Other small but noticeable changes
- Tasklist: Add option to disable mouse scrolling (bug #6996).
- Panel: Make compositing settings insensitive instead of hiding them(bug #7862).
- Panel: Add style property to control size of autohide window.
- Panel: Add option to disable struts in the dialog (bug#7202).
- Showdesktop: Allow middle-click to shade windows (bug #7177).
- Tasklist: Make the plugin shrink instead of expand (bug #7389, #7129).