On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 20:06 +0100, Philip Withnall wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 20:44 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Le lundi 24 septembre 2007, à 04:00 +0100, Alex Jones a écrit : > > > Hi list > > > > > > What do we want from the next version of GNOME Panel? > > > > > > 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? > > > > I've been thinking about this, and it's indeed important to come with a > > reply to this kind of questions. The goal is not to remove the bonobo > > dependency, but to get a better API for applets. Removing bonobo is more > > of a side-effect to me. > > > > About applets & desklets: I've no strong feeling here. On one hand it > > makes some sense since they might be similar for the implementation, but > > on the other hand I don't expect the clock displayed in the panel to > > look and behave like the clock on a desktop. > > How about if the applets/desklets were unified, but had different > interfaces according to whether they were docked in the panel, or on the > desktop? Thus, you'd end up with a clock which looks spiffy when on the > desktop, and is more compact and "boring" (:-P) when docked in the > panel. > > Philip
This sounds much like KDE 4's Plasma, which has applet backends (which provide the needed information, like the time for a clock applet) and the frontend (user interface which can use one or more backends) separated. That would indeed be cool. It's a pitty that we use another language and toolkit than KDE, we could share so many core technologies... :( > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list