On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > Â Â Â* if they will be completely dropped or still work with > Â Â Â Âgnome-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. > Â Â Â* if we should continue maintaining then and if not, if there are > Â Â Â Âany 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. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
