On 25 Jun 2008, at 12:03, Johan Hartzenberg wrote: > > My knowledge of how Gnome and X-windows and JDS and all the related > components link together is limited. So with this background, can > someone please explain to me why we don't have nearly half of the > Applets that you can add to a panel, compared to what is available > with Linux distributions?
There are different reasons for different applets; if you can tell us which ones you're specifically interested in, we can probably tell you why it's not currently included. For now, we don't really install any applets by default that aren't part of the core community GNOME desktop, so that probably accounts for a lot of them. FWIW, we have 35 applets in Nevada (SXCE b92), and there are 44 in a fresh install of Ubuntu Hardy-- so we're doing a lot better than "nearly half". The ones I see in Ubuntu that we don't currently have in Nevada are: Clipboard Text Encryption: have never seen this one before, so I can't tell you much about it I'm afraid. CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor: I'm guessing this comes from gnome- power-manager. It's early days for g-p-m in Solaris, but work is progressing steadily and I think some of it is scheduled for OpenSolaris 2008.11. Disk Mounter: IIRC this is just broken with removable media on Solaris. Probably fixable (but is it really worth it for the number of people who use floppies these days?) Fish: we used to ship this, I forget why we removed it. Inhibit Applet: Another power management feature, see above. Keyboard Indicator: the GNOME keyboard layout stuff is badly broken on Solaris, and IIRC the maintainer hasn't shown much willingness to fix it, so we don't ship it. Tomboy notes: we don't currently ship any Mono apps. User Switcher: this needs virtual console support, which is due to be integrated into Solaris soon. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
