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Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
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The tag makes sense because it's specific.

Top bars, like in case of Budgie, Unity, or GNOME, are all used to do what exactly ? Have a few indicators, display time, connection, calendar, maybe have a menu/list of all programs. And it stays....well...on top and usually areis an integral part of the desktop environment.

Then there's docks, bars, panels, launchers. There's mate-panel, lxpanel, lxqt-panel, xfce4-panel-dbg , razorqt-panel. While those can have applets for calendar, connection, time, etc - they're (re)movable and separately-installable! I can have Budgie running and still have mate-panel on top. But then there's docks: docky, plank, cairo-dock, tint2 (which calls itself panel/taskbar) etc. They're also (re)movable and separate from desktop. While they can be placed on top of the screen, they're not necessarily meant to be there.

I think synonimizing the two only adds confusion, especially in the comments. Imagine the conversations:"Are you talking about the GNOME 2 panel or that side launcher ?". Whereas when I see that'd be a clear indicator (all pun intended) what the user is talking about. But then again, this is just my very much biased opinion.

The tag makes sense because it's specific.

Top bars, like in case of Budgie, Unity, or GNOME, are all used to do what exactly ? Have a few indicators, display time, connection, calendar, maybe have a menu/list of all programs. And it stays....well...on top and usually are integral part of the desktop environment.

Then there's docks, bars, panels, launchers. There's mate-panel, lxpanel, lxqt-panel, xfce4-panel-dbg , razorqt-panel. While those can have applets for calendar, connection, time, etc - they're (re)movable and separately-installable! I can have Budgie running and still have mate-panel on top. But then there's docks: docky, plank, cairo-dock, etc. They're also (re)movable and separate from desktop. While they can be placed on top of the screen, they're not necessarily meant to be there.

I think synonimizing the two only adds confusion, especially in the comments. Imagine the conversations:"Are you talking about the GNOME 2 panel or that side launcher ?". Whereas when I see that'd be a clear indicator (all pun intended) what the user is talking about. But then again, this is just my very much biased opinion.

The tag makes sense because it's specific.

Top bars, like in case of Budgie, Unity, or GNOME, are all used to do what exactly ? Have a few indicators, display time, connection, calendar, maybe have a menu/list of all programs. And it stays....well...on top and usually is an integral part of the desktop environment.

Then there's docks, bars, panels, launchers. There's mate-panel, lxpanel, lxqt-panel, xfce4-panel-dbg , razorqt-panel. While those can have applets for calendar, connection, time, etc - they're (re)movable and separately-installable! I can have Budgie running and still have mate-panel on top. But then there's docks: docky, plank, cairo-dock, tint2 (which calls itself panel/taskbar) etc. They're also (re)movable and separate from desktop. While they can be placed on top of the screen, they're not necessarily meant to be there.

I think synonimizing the two only adds confusion, especially in the comments. Imagine the conversations:"Are you talking about the GNOME 2 panel or that side launcher ?". Whereas when I see that'd be a clear indicator (all pun intended) what the user is talking about. But then again, this is just my very much biased opinion.

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Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
  • 106.5k
  • 19
  • 40

The tag makes sense because it's specific.

Top bars, like in case of Budgie, Unity, or GNOME, are all used to do what exactly ? Have a few indicators, display time, connection, calendar, maybe have a menu/list of all programs. And it stays....well...on top and usually are integral part of the desktop environment.

Then there's docks, bars, panels, launchers. There's mate-panel, lxpanel, lxqt-panel, xfce4-panel-dbg , razorqt-panel. While those can have applets for calendar, connection, time, etc - they're (re)movable and separately-installable! I can have Budgie running and still have mate-panel on top. But then there's docks: docky, plank, cairo-dock, etc. They're also (re)movable and separate from desktop. While they can be placed on top of the screen, they're not necessarily meant to be there.

I think synonimizing the two only adds confusion, especially in the comments. Imagine the conversations:"Are you talking about the GNOME 2 panel or that side launcher ?". Whereas when I see that'd be a clear indicator (all pun intended) what the user is talking about. But then again, this is just my very much biased opinion.