Hi ! Since we must propose modules for gnome 2.16 here it is: I'm proposing the Invest Applet (not-yet-)module to be included. I've talked about the applet a couple of months ago on my blog, here are the two relevant posts: http://raphael.slinckx.net/blog/2006-02-04/deskbar-2139x-series-and-invest-applet http://raphael.slinckx.net/blog/2006-01-18/stock-trading-yay The code isn't released anywhere else than the link provided on the blog and the bzr archive, but i can make it a gnome cvs module of course with little pain. The announcement received a warm welcome by most gnome developpers and users that want to see the old invest applet die. The code hasn't evolved much since then, but it's relatively simple, sloccount reports ~1000 lines (in python). Outstanding improvements that are to be made for it to become usable, are better gconf integration (things are saved to a file right now), update the popup window positionning code from deskbar code, and check the computations are correct. Nice to have improvements are removal of the figures in the panel but use a color coded indicator for the day variation of gains/losses to protect privacy. While the applet may not be *really* useful (few applet are :)) it has a great wow factor, and is really funny to use. As i won't have full-time to work on maintaining and improving it, i asked Lionel 'Ploum" Dricot (a long time gnome/ubuntu/linux advocate http://ploum.frimouvy.org/ ) to assist me in this task, so it will have also the benefit of bringing a new (code-)contributor in Gnome. Maybe someone else can start contributing (preferably a new contributor) too ? Maybe the code could be ported to C for less memory usage ? If the module is accepted but seems to not be able to reach a usable goal as we get closer to 2.16 we can always retract it.. Thanks ! Raf
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