On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 10:46 -0500, Colin Walters wrote: +AD4 On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Christoph Wickert +AD4 +ADw-christoph.wickert+AEA-googlemail.com+AD4 wrote: +AD4 +AD4 What is the future of panel applets? +AD4 +AD4 There is none in Fedora right now. +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 A lot of them (all?) failed to build in the ongoing mass rebuild, so I +AD4 +AD4 wonder +AD4 +AD4 +ACo if they will be completely dropped or still work with +AD4 +AD4 gnome-panel in fallback mode? +AD4 +AD4 I don't think it makes sense to invest a lot of engineering time into +AD4 fallback+ADs so it will likely be very close to what it is now. If an +AD4 applet is adapted to the changes in libpanel-applet-3.0 I guess it +AD4 could work in fallback. +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 +ACo if we should continue maintaining then and if not, if there are +AD4 +AD4 any plans to make gnome-panel obsolete the orphaned applets? +AD4 +AD4 Depends on the particular applet upstream I guess. +AD4 +AD4 +AD4 I know that GNOME 3 is a big step ahead, but frankly speaking I'm a +AD4 +AD4 little worried about the massive impact on other packages / desktops / +AD4 +AD4 maintainers on the one hand and the lack of communication on the other. +AD4 +AD4 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 +AFs-1+AF0 on this topic? Perhaps a pointer to a migration guide wiki, or some developer instructions? Thanks, James +AFs-1+AF0 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome3+ACM-Comments+AF8-and+AF8-Discussion
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