Re: [gDesklets] New features...?

[Lauri Kainulainen <lauri kainulainen gmail com>]

Hi Mario and others,

Mario González wrote:
> Bjoern Koch wrote:
> > Well, I'd say as we are only a handfull of developers anyway it would be
>
>  We are not so many but that's ok. One issue I've been thinking a lot is
> the  "problem" with gDesklets0.4; because development is (AFAIK) slow.
> And perhaps we can release a 0.37 with new features ported from 0.4 and
> others features added also.

Yes, I agree with the problem with 0.4. Personally I'm relatively 
excited about the Universal Applets approach of using XEmbed to allow 
intermixing of different app engines. There are some difficulties with 
it, but lot's of nice stuff also.

I've been following the branch on LP and planning on trying to quickly 
hack the current 0.3x branch to support UA. Hopefully I get time to do 
that in the near future.

What UA lacks is a better name and a strong web-presence, but those are 
fixable issues :)


>  I am going to Guadec this year and I've got 5 minutes to talk about
> gDesklets. I'll show or I would like to show what can a developer do
> with, what are we doing (as developers) and how can new hackers help to
> the project.

That's great! Good luck! I'm sure new hackers will be very welcome! The 
docs suck, but at least people follow this mailing list.


Cheers,
Lauri