2008/9/5 Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > There's no support for it yet. > > Charles hasn't seemed to interested in it in the past, I believe because > integrating it would require additional GNOME dependencies and he prefers > to stay with GTK-only dependencies. > > He's right. Take me, for instance, I'm a KDE person, I don't have GNOME > installed and don't want it installed! Knowing you're going to be > compiling every update has a way of encouraging what's good safe > computing practice anyway, don't have installed what you don't need! =:^) >
I'm not sure, but I believe that the notification area of gnome follows the freedesktop standard tightly, an implementation in it would allow the same notification area to work on kde/other systems. About the dependencies we could tailor the configure script to compile with/without the feature. > But I'd absolutely love to have it here, if it didn't introduce > additional dependencies, and if it degraded gracefully if necessary with > older GTK versions. That's a stiff order, but with all the functionality > in newer GTKs, it just might be possible. > > While you're at it or if that's still not easily done, consider working > on a patch to add printer support using the newer GTK functionality. I > KNOW that's in new GTKs, and Charles wants it back in newer pan, but last > he said anything about it probably ~18 months ago, he didn't think the > GTK printing support was mature enough yet, and didn't want to break > backward compatibility but didn't want to hassle writing it up to > properly degrade gracefully, either. But I'm quite sure he'd take a > patch implementing it, if one were handed to him that filled those > conditions, and unlike the notification/tray area, I KNOW GTK supports > printing now. And it's a reasonably often requested feature, too, so if > you're up to it... =:^) This sounds interesting and useful, I'm looking for anything to code at the moment, so I might just do that, still I need to learn a lot, don't know anything about the subject. > > -- > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pan-devel mailing list > Pan-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-devel >
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