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Next generation Cosmic desktop environment
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Suggestion: Combine desktop dock and panel #1036

Open mejobloggs opened 3 days ago

mejobloggs commented 3 days ago

Feel free to disregard this suggestion, as it personal opinion and it may not be an appropriate place for suggestions, or fit in with the cosmic ideals.

To my mind it's much more useful to have dock and panel together in a single thingy that I can autohide, and access in 1 action. Rather than having to access 2 places. I don't see the value in separating them.

See my screenshot for a quick edit of an idea for combining the two panels.

combineddockpanel

All my general computer operating mouse pointer actions are now in 1 location instead of split

git-f0x commented 3 days ago

You can already do this. Just disable the dock, and add more applets to the panel.

mejobloggs commented 3 days ago

Nice I didn't realise you could add an App Tray to the panel. Thanks very much.

Pity the Workspaces and Applications applets show as words instead of icons on the smaller sizes.

1 step up from small is the perfect size for me, but then Workspaces/Applications are not in icon format, just words

git-f0x commented 3 days ago

It will be configurable, once per-applet settings are implemented. Until then, you can create a configuration file to force them to display as icons. Create a file called configs in ~/.config/cosmic/com.system76.CosmicPanelButton/v1/, with the following contents:

{
    "Panel": (force_presentation: Some(Icon))
}