Re: the future of GNOME Applets



On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 10:45 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote:

> Looking outside the box a little bit, how do you propose to handle the
> removal of applets from the gnome-applets package, and still preserve
> people's panel configuration on an upgrade. Are they suddenly going to
> get a rude message -
> 
> 	" The panel encountered a problem while loading XXX. Do 
> 	  you want to delete the applet from your configuration? "
> 
> and wonder WTF is going on?

I hadn't thought of this really yet. One solution is to ship a different
server file for each of the "turned-off" applets which runs the applet
NULL-applet.

NULL-applet then displays a dialog box.
	"The following applets:
		- modemlights
		- diskmount
		- wifi monitor
		  (other applets that tried to load)
	 are not longer available by default in GNOME 2.10
	 and have been replaced by newer applications (see
	 Miagrating to GNOME 2.10).

	 They have been removed from your configuration, you
	 will not see this dialog again.
						[ X Close ]"

Which will find them in GConf, and remove them. Implementation
difficulty unknown.

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