On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 10:46 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Christoph Wickert
<christoph.wickert(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> What is the future of panel applets?
There is none in Fedora right now.
> A lot of them (all?) failed to build in the ongoing mass rebuild, so I
> wonder
> * if they will be completely dropped or still work with
> gnome-panel in fallback mode?
I don't think it makes sense to invest a lot of engineering time into
fallback; so it will likely be very close to what it is now. If an
applet is adapted to the changes in libpanel-applet-3.0 I guess it
could work in fallback.
> * if we should continue maintaining then and if not, if there are
> any plans to make gnome-panel obsolete the orphaned applets?
Depends on the particular applet upstream I guess.
> I know that GNOME 3 is a big step ahead, but frankly speaking I'm a
> little worried about the massive impact on other packages / desktops /
> maintainers on the one hand and the lack of communication on the other.
I hope the above helps.
I suspect this will be a common question from applet maintainers.
Colin, is there something we can add to the questions/comments section
of the feature page [1] on this topic? Perhaps a pointer to a migration
guide wiki, or some developer instructions?
Thanks,
James
[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome3#Comments_and_Discussion