Excerpts from Olav Vitters's message of mar dic 28 15:20:05 +0100 2010: > 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). gnome-panel currently supports both dbus and bonobo applets. > 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. > -- Carlos Garcia Campos PGP key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x523E6462
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