Re: no external panels for gnome-control-center [was Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup]

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 13:05 +0200, Guillaume Desmottes wrote:
> Le mercredi 11 mai 2011 à 11:47 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit :
> > On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 11:02 +1000, Danielle Madeley wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 01:27 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > #1 -- was this announced/proposed to desktop-devel-list?
> > > > 
> > > > No, because it was only made for one particular module
> > > > (gnome-bluetooth), and by me. The reason we had an external API was so
> > > > that gnome-bluetooth code happen in time for 3.0. And we've reverting it
> > > > to 3.2.
> > > 
> > > Empathy has some control-center shell integration as well for its
> > > accounts configuration. Or perhaps it's an old version of the API. It
> > > was primarily done for Meego Netbook.
> > 
> > That will hopefully be superseded by the Web Accounts panel David is
> > working on.
> 
> But shouldn't we wait that the Web accounts panel is actually a full
> super-set of Empathy's panel (and not just some mockups) before removing
> the lib?

Of course, yes. And I didn't have time to work on moving gnome-bluetooth
into the control-center either. I guess this'll serve as a warning to
people who wanted to install their own panels.