On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:08:51AM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> wrote > > What is kicker? > > kicker is the equivalent of the GNOME foot menu, or Windows Start menu, > IIRC (I'm not a KDE user; it could also be the KDE panel itself). It's the panel itself. Kicker is analogous to the MacOS X Dock, Windows taskbar, or gnome-panel. > I think Paul meant "applets" by "proglets" -- small applications > that can run on the panel; windowmaker (a NextSTEP-ish WM, as is > afterstep) utilizes a "dock" and dockapps or dock proglets, which > are very similar. Right. "Applets" is a misnomer, though: "Applications" are general aspects of computing, like word processing, spreadsheats, web browsers, etc. The Debian idea of what "tasks" are is identical to what the non-marketroid definition of an application is. Programs are what the machine actually runs. OpenOffice.org Writer is not an application, it's a program; word processing is the application. To put it another way, applications are what you want to do with the computer, programs are how you get it done. > The big difference is that they're not on a bar, but rather in a special > area on the screen that sizes itself to the number of dockapps present. Well, the proglets can be of various sizes in the kicker/panel, whereas dock proglets are usually fixed size 64x64 pixels. -- .''`. Baloo <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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