Future Panel

The following is a random list of things (and applets) that may provide inspiration into gnome panel 2.0 (3.0?)

• I think that the icons/launchers in the gnome-panel should have a margin of 2px on all the sides. It will make a cleaner and better user interface and user experience. It will help also to organize the icons in a better ways and get a kind of grid or constant space between each icon. Here is a mockup that i made for this propose. icons in gnome-panel needs more air around!

• Check out this screencast of the state of the art with kiba-dock and avant-window-navigator. Look at these for inspiration!

• Desrts compositing panel work as a foundation

• WebKitGtk + Jackfield as an alternative to plasmoids

• D-Bus based interface instead of Bonobo

• Support for mac style menubar, either transparently (screenshots) (bug) or optionally.

• Play well with compiz widget support (like screenlets)

• Maybe even moonlight could be used here (sans mono)

• Workspace previews

• Combined Window list & Notification area & Launchers: Description Demo

• Group based window management - an idea for redesigning the panel and use of workspaces

• In need of a major new GNOME panel

A hypothetical perfect panel would be much similar to current, with the inertial-things-have-mass bling of akamaru physics engine (from kiba-dock), with the reflection and other gui touches from awn (or libawn).

There would be support for some of the cool touches in kiba-dock and awn such as stacks, and the ability to change ones dock icon (like you can in awn)

Alternative Panels, Docks and Panel Like Apps

• Ubuntu System Panel

• Circular Application Menu

• GNOME Global Menu

• Tint2 Panel

• TNPanel (Tint2 Panel Fork)

• GNOME Menu File Browser Applet

• Bmpanel

• Dockbarx