On 9/24/07, Alex Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi list > > What do we want from the next version of GNOME Panel?
Firstly, I think there is a lot of cool panel like implementations floating around GNOME these days. It might be a good time to merge some together before everything drifts too far apart. The following is a random list of things (and applets) that will hopefully converge into what would be me dream gnome panel 2.0 (3.0?) * Check out this screencast [0] of the state of the art with kiba-dock [1] and avant-window-navigator [2]. Look at these for inspiration! * Desrts compositing panel work [3] as a foundation * WebKitGtk + Jackfield [5] as an alternative to plasmoids * Support for mac style menubar, either transparently [6][7] or optionally [8] * Play well with compiz widget support (like screenlets [9]) * Maybe even moonlight could be used here [10] (but no mono, please) * Workspace previews [11] A hypothetical perfect panel would be much similar to current, with the inertial-things-have-mass bling of akamaru physics engine (from kiba-dock), with the reflection and other gui touches from awn (or libawn). There would be support for some of the cool touches in kiba-dock and awn such as stacks, and the ability to change ones dock icon (like you can in awn) Apologies for a large list of links and no offer to help. I put these out there with the hope to excite people and so that I dont forget them should I happen to mysteriously discover I have abundant free time. John [0] http://fusioncast.blogspot.com/2007/09/fusioncast-flash-episode-i.html [1] http://www.kiba-dock.org/ [2] https://launchpad.net/awn [3] http://git.desrt.ca/gitweb/?p=panel.git;a=summary [4] http://live.gnome.org/WebKitGtk [5] http://www.kryogenix.org/code/jackfield/ [6] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=241868 [7] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353076 [8] http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx/menubar [9] http://www.screenlets.org/index.php/Home [10] http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Jun-28.html [11] http://blogs.gnome.org/nigeltao/2007/06/17/p1mp-my-switcher/ > > Do we want to evolve it or just replace the dependency on Bonobo for now? > > I think that unifying the concept of applets and more heavyweight "widgets" > might be beneficial, unless anyone can think of any good reason why not to. > Any GDesklets developers here? > > Cheers > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
