2009/4/19 Johannes Schmid <j...@jsschmid.de>: > Hi! > > CC'ing GNOME shell list as this is probably the space this should be > discussed. > >> As the deskbar-applet maintainer I'm very concerned that are no clear >> plans for an applet/desktop widget framework, yet. I guess porting an >> applet to the new yet-to-be-invented framework would take considerable >> time. Because there's currently no plan for a new framework it will take >> some time until there is a time and the framework is actually usable. >> Hopefully it's not already too late to start porting applets then. I >> think it would be a big mistake to omit applets in the new gnome desktop >> evolution. > > I don't think applets in the way we think of them currently are a very > great thing and they have been overused in the past (as have > notifications). Nevertheless, some applets are generally useful, like > tomboy or hamster. > > For deskbar, I think it should be integrated with gnome-shell itself. It > already has some box to type so this could evolve into a deskbar input > box. > > For the others the point of bringing up a standard is not that bad imho. > Let's face it that have have about 1 year left and even in this year it > would be ok to have standard draft that is implemented in GNOME 3.0 and > is 90% stable while the rest 10% missing for the 1.0 standard release > can be done afterwards. > > This API should contain the possibilty to add a "widget" (likely an > XWindow of some kind) into some "panel" that is *not* just an icon > because we have the notification area for icons.
The K-team is already way ahead of us here. Reading http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/04/system-trays.html should give a good idea where they are heading. And basically I agree with them; XEmbed is a bad choice for a long list of reasons. Fx. You can not have two system trays (or more specifically - you can only have the same tray icon in one system tray), trays can't control/affect icon behavior, and other nitty gritty stuff that just makes it a very short sighted solution if you ask me. I will see if I can find some docs about their protocol. -- Cheers, Mikkel _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
