Re: Panel Status - GNOME 2.0

[Glynn Foster <glynn foster sun com>]

I forgot to mention that gnome-core/panel won't build without a patch to
glib-mkenums. Look at bug - 
	http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64714

			See ya,
				Glynn ;)

On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 00:32, Glynn Foster wrote:
> Heya,
> So Mark and myself had this great plan on Tuesday that we would sit down
> and write a panel status mail to scare the living shit out of people and
> convince everyone to hack on the panel....Well obviously, we forgot, so
> I'm writing this mail from my point of view....this could be very far
> from the truth :/ [and actually I will probably exaggerate things for
> better effect].
> 
> - Easter Eggs
> All easter eggs are broken [1]
> 
> - Menus
> George has written a vfolder module for gnome-vfs which needs to be
> implemented in the panel. The vfolder method for implementing George's
> plan about how menus are sorted [2]
> 
> Ditem is also quite broken. It has been ported to gnome-vfs [mostly] and
> barely works. It's completely broken wrt to encoding. I spent all day
> trying to figure out why it wasn't working better...so now it is,
> slightly, even if it really only displays nice icons on the panel once
> again.
> Also for some weird reason, when panels are set to autohide, the menus
> aren't getting drawn.
> 
> - Panel Configuration
> I've spent quite a while looking at the various global configuration
> options and have since removed a large proportion of them. There is now
> a schema file [only initial hacked up version] for the global panel
> config.
> 
> GConf'izing hasn't happened very much. In fact the panel probably uses
> 70% gnome_config and 30% gconf right now. No notification has been added
> as yet. The intention is to follow Havoc's session proposal [3]. I think
> it would probably be best to go with gconf for the global properties and
> keep everything else using gnome_config for now. Notifications for the
> global properties is, I think, a must.
> 
> - GObject & properties
> A rather inconsistant, botched job so far. Been slowly changing things
> to have a more consistant approach with the rest of GNOME 2.0 but lots
> of work to be done here and probably much breakage and assed cracked
> hacking. Panel still uses *huge* construct calls which would be better
> done with properties.
> 
> - Applets
> Actually I think this is the most promising bit for the GNOME 2.0 panel.
> Applets are now bonobo controls and work is progressing very well for
> this. Actually Mark could fill you in more about this because he's been
> doing most of the work. In any case, the controls have context menus,
> can be moved around and oriented. They are looking quite funky. The old
> applet api is being deprecated/trashed.
> 
> - Accessibility
> We've briefly talked to Bill and Calum about this. It's not quite a
> priority now at the moment, but it really *has* to be done before the
> GNOME 2.0 release [4]. We have a few notes and will discuss it with them
> later on in development.
> 
> - Summary
> Build GNOME 2.0 libraries. Build gnome-core/panel. Watch it die, right
> out of the box!. Marvel at those broken menus. Amaze your friends when
> panels start disappearing from your screen. Don't blame us because we're
> the only ones hacking on it at the moment. Find a bug, fix it. Make the
> world a better place to be. Break into histerics when you see the
> release schedule. The panel *needs* YOU!.
> 
> 		Anyway, enough scare-mongering.
> 				See ya,
> 					Glynn :)
> 
> 
> [1] Right, that's got George on board
> 
> [2] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2001-June/msg00029.html
> 
> [3] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2001-October/msg00128.html
> 
> [4] It's the center point of the desktop after all
> 
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