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gejr

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Registered: 2007-05-23

Posts: 92

Different panels/stuff to help navigate your desktop

Please help me fulfill this list.. I want to try other panels. I'm currently using only pypanel, and it's nice. Just wondering if there's other stuff i should try.

Panels:

- pypanel : Unfortunately no longer developed so we won't see cool new features any time soon. Lightweight.
- fbpanel : (Not affiliated with fluxbox. Thanks Plut0nium:) Lightweight and has graphical configuration to some extent.
- fspanel : geeky, tiny tiny panel. Haven't tried it, but saw some screenshots and decided it was ugly :)
- gnome-panel : A nice panel with, but way too much bloat.
- xfce-panel : nice, but a little too bloated for my taste. I like pypanels config file :)
- kde-panel? Never tried kde, so i have nothing to say about this.
- perlpanel (thanks Plut0nium)
- avant window navigator (thanks rson451)

Miscellaneous:

- fbpager (thanks rson451)
- tangent (thanks rson451)
- Visibility : Desktop pager/taskbar which I like very much. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be developed much. The website is always down. It's in AUR.
- Trayer : standalone tray application? Haven't tried it.
- Tint/ttm : really lightweight, but visually beautiful taskbar

Forgive me if this has been covered earlier.

Last edited by gejr (2007-10-11 12:47:10)

rson451

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From: Annapolis, MD USA

Registered: 2007-04-15

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Re: Different panels/stuff to help navigate your desktop

would awn fit in this list? also there is a program out there (very hard to find at first) called tangent which is a stand alone pager kinda like fbpager. oh yeah you can add fbpager to the list too

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plut0nium

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From: Mons, Belgium

Registered: 2007-01-18

Posts: 18

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Re: Different panels/stuff to help navigate your desktop

there's also perlpanel [ http://www.perlpanel.org ], as the name states, its written in perl, with GTK2.
however i haven't used it for a long time, and the project does not seem to move a lot

- fbpanel : Fluxbox' native panel. Lightweight and has graphical configuration to some extent.

i think fbpanel [ http://fbpanel.sourceforge.net ] is not affiliated with fluxbox (speaking about fluxbox, version 1.0 is out !) and uses C/GTK2

there are also docks, which aren't strictly panels, but provide similar functionnalities

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PJ

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-10-11

Posts: 602

Re: Different panels/stuff to help navigate your desktop

lxpanel - A fork of fbpanel but I don't think that it is develop anymore. It might as well be developed but in a very slow pace. I used it for a while but for some reason I went back to pypanel.
taskbar - Never tried it but I don't like the visual style of it and besides it doesn't seem that updated either. Seems like it influenced by fspanel.
docker - Something that I am using togheter with pypanel and it works pretty ok, but it really seems to be abandonware.

veikko

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From: Estonia

Registered: 2006-07-28

Posts: 3

Re: Different panels/stuff to help navigate your desktop

Maybe not exactly what you are looking for but dzen2 might be worth checking out.

awagner

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From: Mainz, Germany

Registered: 2007-08-24

Posts: 191

Re: Different panels/stuff to help navigate your desktop

any of these (except for gnome-panel of course) can display gnome applets like desksearch-applet? (AFAIU these are different from tray icons which can be loaded via docker, f.ex.)

Thanks.

[vEX]

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-11-23

Posts: 450

Re: Different panels/stuff to help navigate your desktop

xfce4-panel has a appled called xfapplet which allows you to use Gnome applets in the xfce-panel.

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awagner

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From: Mainz, Germany

Registered: 2007-08-24

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Re: Different panels/stuff to help navigate your desktop

xfce4-panel has a appled called xfapplet which allows you to use Gnome applets in the xfce-panel.

Thanks a lot. I'm going to look into it. (Currently I'm using pypanel.) OTOH, I've just posted an app -- wmswallow -- on AUR which allows to swallow any app into a dockapp. Right now I have used it to put desktop-applet in my openbox dock.