[REQUEST] LXpanel improvements

[maloy]

Now that Gnome3 and Unity are here lots of users, like me, want to migrate to a more usable desktop. LXDE it's simple and fast. But not as good as we want.

I think that LXDE can attract a bunch of new users with some little changes, that make it look and feel more like Gnome2 (that was simply great):

1. Make the applications menu more attractive, with big icons, like in Gnome2.

2. Make a more usable places menu, like it was in Gnome2. Just 'click and open', and also make it shows removable-drives.

3. Make lxpanel show the icon theme 'starthere'-icon, instead of the ugly button that has now.

4. Make lxpanel show the panel background that it's included in the gtk-theme automatically. Like gnome-panel and xfce4-panel.

5. Include a session-menu applet to let the user logout, restart or shutdown quick from the panel, something like the indicator-session applet, from Ubuntu.

6. Make the volume applet shows pavucontrol, alsamixer or something, to adjust the volume more easily. And also include an option to select the sound theme.

[Toscho]

I'd also request an easy tool to switch panels between horizontal and vertical mode. It's possible to create vertical panels and change the settings, but it's complicated.

At least: let the icons be scaled to the same width instead of the same width. As it is now, I can't move the menu-applet to the vertical bar with the lubuntu-logo.png icon, because it's not square and if I let it scale vertically to fill the width horizontally, all other icons are to big. (Understood? I'm still a little bit confused about it.)