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Open Issues

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TODO

• Port to GDBus
• fix drag and drop (e.g. moving internal plugins within the panel from the context menu - moving in the prefs dialog works, moving external plugins also works)
  • oddly, DND works for internal plugins too when /force-all-external is set to true
  • even with external plugins, DND doesn't fully work. the possible targets are only next to internal plugins, so you cannot e.g. drop an external plugin between two other external plugins
  • branch that could help with debugging: https://git.xfce.org/users/andrzejr/xfce4-panel/log/?h=drag_and_drop_experiments
  • mclasen mentioned that investigating https://developer.gnome.org/gdk3/stable/gdk3-Drag-and-Drop.html#gdk-drag-context-manage-dnd may help understanding what's going on (a lot of functionality was moved there)
• with /force-all-external=true tasklist size is incorrect (always minimum)
• fix the deprecation warnings (excl. gtkimagemenuitem, systray)
  • gtk_misc_set_padding
  • gtk_icon_size_from_name
  • etc.
• improve the calendar style of the time plugin (padding sucks etc)
  • tracked upstream for now, maybe we'll integrate some changes in the panel (where needed)
  • https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780327
  • https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780334
  • https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780328

Regression

Intelli-hide:

1. maximize a window
2. bring a small window that does *not* cover the panel to the front/focus
3. click to open a menu and then to close it
4. the panel jumps out and in again in this case (in Gtk2 it simply remains visible, which is the correct behavior)

DONE

• fix broken internal plugin preferences dialogs (Simon)
• no “walking ants” when opening the panel prefs dialog
• re-add autohide features (intelligent hiding) (Simon)
• incorrect panel icon sizes in directory menu, window menu, show desktop (esp. Adwaita)
• the panel has no “outer border” drawn like before (was part of the “draw” callback and done with cairo) - (Simon)
  • panel border is not updated on style-changed signal (i.e. when changing themes)
• fix mess with theming/background colors/transparency - mostly done with only CSS now! (Simon)
  • panel has to be hovered after startup to get correct foreground color/state fixed in Xfwm4 master
  • the gtkstatusicons (i.e. the systray icons) all have broken background colors
  • background partially transparent when the panel is unlocked
• re-add exo to plugins that need it (or better: use glib instead)
  • windowmenu
  • applicationsmenu
  • tasklist
  • directorymenu
• panel icon initially invisible on hover (esp. Adwaita). Affects launchers, action buttons, directory menu, window menu etc. Icons briefly invisible during hover animation.
  • This is a bug in xfce_panel_image. it should be replaced with gtk_image_from_icon_name and the sizing should be returned from libxfcepanel: https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/commit/?id=c183ccab6a9ea941154752abb0172193eaca35fa
  • all internal plugins should be fixed
• desktop switcher (pager) shows no highlight on mouse hover or for active desktop
  • fallback set which fixes bright themes, any theme can override / fix the default set by the panel plugin
• tasklist:
  • problems with redrawing when enabling/disabling labels
  • problems with redrawing when changing grouping settings
• Replace GtkStock
• separator-plugin:<del> * <del>re-add the dots style
  • fix the handle style
• applications menu plugin icon is missing at first startup?