Le samedi 07 janvier 2006 à 22:00 +0800, Davyd Madeley a écrit : > On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 12:53 +0100, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote: > > > > + maybe it's a good time to consider making a libgnome-applet instead > > > of libpanel-applet: there has always been discussion about having > > > applets on the desktop, so... > > > > sounds reasonable > > Ryan, Vincent and I (and others) have, at various stages over the last > two years, discussed developing a new API for applets that offers us > more flexibility, makes applets more consistent, handles a lot of > painful things automatically, and makes things much easier for > developers by providing a framework to allow what 99% of applets > encompass (an icon, a piece of text and some sort of dropdown/menu > available when you click, only obvious exceptions I can think of being > deskbar/mini-commander, (some of) wncklet and multiload). > > We also wanted to handle the programatic addition and removal of applets > to allow for hardware hotplugging and possible implement some sort of > interface that allowed for applets to be dragged to and from the desktop > and the panel (similar to something in KDE's Plasma). > > The only problem is that no one ever really got started, because no one > has really had the time to sit down and start it. The essence of the > discussion was captured here: > http://live.gnome.org/AppletsRevisited > > Perhaps now is finally the time to move forward.
You're reading my mind ;-) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
