Hi Colin, thanks for the info. Am Freitag, den 11.02.2011, 10:46 -0500 schrieb Colin Walters: > 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. What does this mean for me as a maintainer of several applets? > > 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. OK, it seems like some of my packages built successfully, so I assume applets are not completely dead for now, at least from a technical POV. > > * 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 don't think so, I was rather thinking of the packaging site. We need to have proper Provides/Obsoletes in place for a clean upgrade. Regards, Christoph -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
