Re: Planning for GNOME 3.0

[Sebastian Pölsterl <sebp k-d-w org>]

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Colin Walters schrieb:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Sandy Armstrong
>>  * What is the applet story for gnome-shell?  As the maintainer of a GNOME
>> applet (Tomboy), I accept that there may be significant work to port our
>> applet to a new infrastructure, but now I'm concerned that I will also need
>> to *create* that infrastructure (because gnome-shell is basically being
>> imposed upon us, and not going through the regular process, I can only
>> assume that if there's no applet infrastructure, it's my fault for not
>> caring enough to contribute one).
> 
> No, not at all.  I think it should be gnome-shell's responsibility
> mostly.  This is a complex discussion though.  I think we ultimately
> will end up with a multifaceted approach.  The "core desktop" applets
> like clock, user switcher etc. are being ported directly.  We should
> add the Tomboy applet that list.

What exactly do you mean by "ported directly"?

As the deskbar-applet maintainer I'm very concerned that are no clear
plans for an applet/desktop widget framework, yet. I guess porting an
applet to the new yet-to-be-invented framework would take considerable
time. Because there's currently no plan for a new framework it will take
some time until there is a time and the framework is actually usable.
Hopefully it's not already too late to start porting applets then. I
think it would be a big mistake to omit applets in the new gnome desktop
evolution.

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Greetings,
Sebastian Pölsterl
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