About a week ago I was trying to organise my desktop at home and
was struck by the problem I had keeping my various collections of
launchers on the panel organised. In this case there are three
distinct groups with quite different function: application
quick-launch, specialised commands and commonly used folders. Up until
then I had just kept them well separated – ugly, but effective. Now
there is a new way:
Separators in the panel: taking an old idea and putting it
somewhere new. You can find code for an applet that does this attached
to bug
#300593. It isn’t a ./configure ; make install affair,
but still fairly straight-forward to get working. As Vincent comments,
it is probably better as an internal panel item, but applets are at
least halfway documented, so that’s what I wrote.