Re: Panel 2 rules!

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 11 Oct 2001, jacob berkman wrote:

> this is a problem.  there are many people interested in working on the
> panel - myself, alex, the sun guys, you, maybe even some day some
> outside contributor.
> 
> if we don't have a list of:
> 
> 	1. what needs to be done
> 	2. who is doing what
> 
> then there is no way to have any idea on:
> 
> 	1. what things are remaining
> 	2. who is at fault when things don't happen (so other people can 	  
> take over)
> 	3. what things nobody is working on
> 
> i mean, even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in a while but 8
> people randomly hacking on some code is not going to lead to anything
> good.
> 
> so the obvious thing to do would be to use bugzilla (of course).
> 
> but this only works if people actually follow this, and don't just
> "randomly go through fixing FIXME's".
> 
> this is the same thing that happened to the old gnome-libs.  i really
> don't want to see it repeated here again.
> 
> so i know that you are all for randomly working on things, but it just
> not going to work here.
> 
> honestly, i feel at this point it is a waste of my time to even go in
> and read any of the panel code, as there is no direction on things.
> 
> [ this doesn't even count the sick feeling i get in my stomach when i
> read panel code.  i am neither kidding nor trying to be funny.  it is
> really that bad. ]
> 
> so, can we agree to have a bit of organization here before we fuck
> ourselves again?

I sort of agree. We need to be a bit more organized here, but on the other 
hand, it's hard to split up the work when it just does nothing at all. 

I feel we need to have it in a state where you can look at it and say 
"this part doesn't work, i'll fix that". Right now that is very hard, 
because it just does nothing.

I'm currently working on converting the desktop file parsing to use 
GnomeDesktopItem. My hope is to pop up the foot menu.

Btw. The extremely slow desktop-file loading only happens when you run it 
in gdb.

/ Alex