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[Tim Peeters <tim.peeters@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It would be good to find out which applications use/need Panel.

Since the Toolbar is quite flexible now, it would be easier for us to
maintain (the code itself, and the autopilot tests) if we could make the
Panel internal. The Panel was is more generic than the toolbar (it can be
attached to any edge of the screen), but the Toolbar now supports any Item
as contents via the tools property. So we need to have a look if we still
need the genericity of the Panel.


On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Nicholas Skaggs <
nicholas.skaggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Tim Peeters <tim.peeters@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Leo is right here for the toolbar, which we promote to use. But for some
>> specific applications such as the webbrowser-app, currently the Panel
>> component is used instead of the Toolbar because it is (or was) more
>> flexible. There are no emulators for the Panel, so that can still be an
>> issue.
>>
>
> We've been chatting this week about components still needing emulator
> coverage, so let's get panel added. Leo would love to have other folks
> helping hack on the emulator (wink, wink).
>
> Changes like this should be absorbed in the emulator, thus keeping tests
> written using it intact. If you've not adopted the emulator for your tests,
> now is the time to do so.
> http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2013/07/an-autopilot-emulator-for-ubuntu-sdk.html
>
>
> Nicholas
>