2.16 UI Freeze Break Request for Deskbar Applet

["Nigel Tao" <nigel tao gnome gmail com>]

As mentioned on desktop-devel-list and deskbar-applet-list recently,
Deskbar Applet's new NewStuffManager feature will not be ready by the
2.16 timeframe, and we would like to remove NSM from deskbar
2.15/2.16.

Consequently, we seek approval to break UI freeze.  An alternative
(that is less preferred by us) is to not have a deskbar 2.16 release
and present deskbar 2.14 as part of GNOME 2.16.

In particular, this would involve
1) removing the small "Update Available" annotation in the list, and
the two buttons "Check For Updates" and "Update" on the Searches tab.
The "More..." button remains, since it was part of 2.14.
http://blogs.gnome.org/attachment/nigeltao/2006/07/30/0/updates2.png

2) removing the "New Extensions" preferences tab (and the associated
installation progress dialog)
http://blogs.gnome.org/attachment/nigeltao/2006/07/30/0/new-extensions.png

This is a non-trivial (but straightforward, IMHO) patch.

Apologies for bringing this up so late in the release cycle.
Nigel (wearing the deskbar-applet maintainer hat)