You want to modernize Gnome Panel, have fun hacking at obscure bugs, but
leave everybody else's needs behind. Your patches to get rid of stock
items ? Nice in theory, a few less warnings while building - but they
leave the overall translation status for gnome panel & friends (projects
that are no longer translated actively in a number of languages) in a
much worse state. And there's not really any _need_ for these patches,
until glib/gtk eventually break api and get rid of stock items. _Then_
we need these patches. So any responsible maintainer would reject these
patches for master and all current releases, and ask you to collect them
in bugzilla. Except I've pretty much given up on asking you, as you
still seem unable to even put a proper patch header (with bugzilla link)
on your work.