El mar, 26-02-2008 a las 15:18 -0600, Benjamin Gramlich escribió: > Thank you to everyone who has responded so far. Spending a summer > hacking Gnome is going to be splendid. > > About 4 months ago (I think it was October), there was a discussion here > about the panel. I was directed to desrt's work, but it doesn't seem to > be complete. I think a rethink of the panel would be a great idea. Both > John and Luis brought up the idea of widgets/gadgets/gidgets. This is > definitely an idea that Gnome should implement. Personally, I think it > would be neat to develop an interface for gadgets so that they could be > deployed to the desktop as gadgets, but then dragged to the panel to > function as applets. I also think that the current iteration of the > panel is a little stale. While there doesn't seem to be any agreement as > to how to design a new panel, I feel we should try to move in that > direction. AWN is designed well, but it requires a composited > environment. This is problematic for people with older PCs and everyone > with an ATI card :). I propose a hybrid between the traditional panel > and a dock. The menu should also be modernized. Vista's menu has a fixed > size by default, and thus requires a scrolled window once the menu > becomes to large (this is bad), but it has two panes (one for the > program menu and one with shortcuts to file locations) and a search box > (these are good!). The gnome menu would benefit from these two > additions. (It could also look prettier, like openSUSE's menu). > > I know I'm all over the place here, I'm just trying to brain storm and > start a discussion. The last discussion about the panel fizzled out some > time ago. > > I know that Vincent wants to completely remove the bonobo dependency > from the panel/applet-library, but on the roadmap he also mentioned a > compatibility layer for old bonobo based applets. If the gnome default > applets were re-written could we proceed with an API break in order to > implement something new? I think all the new ideas about the panel and the applets are quite nice, however implement them would take a long time. If we want to remove the bonobo dependency from the panel for now, we can just port the current libpanel-applet to D-Bus which can be easily done in a release cycle. Since most of the changes would be in the library and not in the applets I don't think it's worth to keep bonobo compatibility. Porting applets should be a really easy task that could be done as a GNOME Goal. > Looking forward to it, > > Benjamin > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Carlos Garcia Campos elkalmail yahoo es carlosgc gnome org http://carlosgc.linups.org PGP key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x523E6462
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