Re: [gnome-flashback] Porting of deskbar-applet?

[Lanoxx <lanoxx gmx net>]

Hello Matteo,

[2] is definitetly a good starting point. I used that at one point to 
port an applet as well. If the deskbar-applet is still
written in GTK+2 then you will also want to look at [4]. [2] alone is 
not always enough to know what needs to be done. I suggest you look into 
the git history of modules such as gnome-applets too, that will give you 
an idea what was done in those modules at the time of the porting. Feel 
free to ask us if you have any questions.

[4] https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-migrating-2-to-3.html

Cheers
Sebastian

On 09/12/14 00:01, Matteo Manighetti wrote:
> Hello everybody
>
> First a couple of lines to introduce myself. I am a student and a
> discretely long time Linux user, but I have never actively partecipated
> in the community. I have always been a GNOME user, but I was quite
> disappointed with GNOME Shell. Needless to say, I really appreciate the
> work that has been going on recently around gnome-flashback, and I have
> been following developement on the mailing list for a while.
>
> One thing I miss from the gnome2 times is the deskbar-applet. I felt
> that a port to modern version of gnome, gnome-panel and related
> technologies could be the opportunity for me to get to do something.
> So as you may imagine I have a lot of things to ask, starting from the
> most fundamental:
> 1- Is this too big of a project for an almost complete newcomer to
> real-world (i.e. non study-related projects) and open source
> programming?
> 2- Is this the right place to ask for advice?
>
> I saw there is some documentation available for applet porting ([1],
> [2]), and that there has been some time ago a port to the MATE desktop
> ([3]), although it seems now abandoned and forgotten.
>
> If anybody has some advice, I would be very grateful
>
> Matteo
>
> [1] https://developer.gnome.org/panel-applet/stable/
> [2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/AppletsDbusMigration
> [3] https://github.com/benpicco/mate-deskbar-applet
>
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