Re: Re: gnome-panel & gnome-applets?

[Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 03:03:45PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 28 décembre 2010 à 13:02 +0000, Rui Tiago Cação Matos a écrit :
> > What you want is not Gnome 3 then. You want to continue using Gnome 2
> > and there's no one preventing you from doing that.
> 
> Is the GNOME 3 panel compatible with the GNOME 2 applets?

Only with dbus applets, AFAIK (and hope).

IIRC some work is needed on gnome-applets to port them properly to
latest gtk+ (and so on). If someone bothers (I'm guessing between GNOME
3.0 and 3.2), I don't see any reason not to release a new tarball with
those changes. Whether or not that is supported doesn't really matter.

However, the fallback is meant as a fallback, not as providing
gnome-panel and its applets. So I don't see anything wrong with not
providing the applets. While at the same time, I don't see anything
wrong with releasing a new gnome-applets tarball.

Meaning: GNOME 3 is not gnome-panel and never will be. But if someone
still hacks on gnome-applets nobody will work against them.

I do hope at one point we won't need the gnome-panel fallback (quick
enough software rendering or some other experience).

That said, think it would be good to provide a gnome-applets which works
with gtk+ 3.0.

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Regards,
Olav