Re: gnome-panel & gnome-applets?

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

Hi,

Sergey Udaltsov wrote:
> I am confused, what's the story with gnome-panel and gnome-applets in
> 3.0? Are they in, are they out? If gnome 3 is to support gnome2 compat
> mode, both of these components should stay in for some while, right?
> Currently, the situation in in jhbuild is very strange: gnome-panel is
> still there, gnome-applets are gone. Is this planned? Who'd need the
> panel without the applets?

I pointed this after the new modulesets were pushed, you can read the
answer Jon gave here:
 http://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2010-December/msg00004.html

The relevant part:

| >>  - gnome-applets (even if we still have gnome-panel)
|
| RIP.  Essential applets should be part of gnome-panel itself.  It
| doesn't make sense to have applets only in the gnome 2 fallback
| experience.


Cheers,
        Frederic