Re: libgnome-applet, GnomeApplet, etc. etc.

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le samedi 07 janvier 2006 �2:00 +0800, Davyd Madeley a �it :
> On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 12:53 +0100, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:
> 
> > >   + maybe it's a good time to consider making a libgnome-applet instead
> > >     of libpanel-applet: there has always been discussion about having
> > >     applets on the desktop, so...
> > 
> > sounds reasonable
> 
> Ryan, Vincent and I (and others) have, at various stages over the last
> two years, discussed developing a new API for applets that offers us
> more flexibility, makes applets more consistent, handles a lot of
> painful things automatically, and makes things much easier for
> developers by providing a framework to allow what 99% of applets
> encompass (an icon, a piece of text and some sort of dropdown/menu
> available when you click, only obvious exceptions I can think of being
> deskbar/mini-commander, (some of) wncklet and multiload).
> 
> We also wanted to handle the programatic addition and removal of applets
> to allow for hardware hotplugging and possible implement some sort of
> interface that allowed for applets to be dragged to and from the desktop
> and the panel (similar to something in KDE's Plasma).
> 
> The only problem is that no one ever really got started, because no one
> has really had the time to sit down and start it. The essence of the
> discussion was captured here:
>     http://live.gnome.org/AppletsRevisited
> 
> Perhaps now is finally the time to move forward.

You're reading my mind ;-)

Vincent

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