Re: Archiving old non-maintained (for GNOME 3) applets

[Paolo Bacchilega <paolo bacchilega libero it>]

Il 10/06/2011 12:07, Vincent Untz ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> I guess everyone knows that GNOME 2 applets don't work in GNOME 3, and
> talking here and there, the feedback I got is that it wasn't worth
> creating a bridge to be able to load those in the GNOME 3 panel.
>
> As several applets are not going to be ported to GNOME 3 (either because
> the code is unmaintained or it has been announced already), I think we
> should clearly archive them so that translators stop working on them and
> distributors know their status.
>
> So far, I only have this small list:
>
>   bookmark-applet
>   contact-lookup-applet
>   deskbar-applet
>   gnome-netstatus
>
> It also appears that libpanelappletmm won't get ported (and the gnote
> developers decided to directly use the C library instead for the GNOME 3
> port).
>
> So unless anybody complains about those 5 modules, I'll file a bug to
> get them archived.
>
> Is there any other git module for an applet that we should archive?

quick-lounge-applet (I'm the maintainer) can be archived as well, it was 
an applet to organize launchers on the panel, it's clearly of no use now 
that we have the GNOME Shell.

- Paolo