Re: GConf Stability - how to add icons to panel

[Vincent Untz <vincent vuntz net>]

On sam, 2005-02-05 at 13:24 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 21:37 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> <snip lots>
> 
> > > 1. To fulfil our needs to create an internal contract at Sun, it would be great
> > >     if someone could explain the correct/best approach for integrating into
> > >     the panel.  It would also be useful if people could highlight if this
> > >     interface is Stable and will be supported in an on-going fashion.
> > 
> > I think we should provide a script:
> >   gnome-panel-add-launcher foo.desktop

We can do this. Brian, if you're interested in such a script, please
open a bug in bugzilla.

> </snip>
> 
> Adding stuff to panel sanely (and later being able to remove it again)
> is a bit of a pain at the moment IMHO (read: it can be done, but kinda
> sucks).
> 
> These are issues I hope to address when we have a new panel.
> http://live.gnome.org/AppletsRevisited

If I add a dbus interface to the panel in 2.12 to control panel objects
(i.e. list objects, add an object, remove an object), won't it be
enough? I don't think there is a need for a *new* panel to make this
happen...

Vincent

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