Re: Panel Status - GNOME 2.0

[Glynn Foster <glynn foster sun com>]

I forgot also to mention that there are screenshots [large image alert]
at http://www.gnome.org/~gman/panelplan if you are truly desperate to
see how similar looking it is to the gnome1.4 panel.

				See ya,
					Glynn ;)


On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 00:37, Glynn Foster wrote:
> I forgot to mention that gnome-core/panel won't build without a patch to
> glib-mkenums. Look at bug - 
> 	http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64714
> 
> 			See ya,
> 				Glynn ;)
> 
> On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 00:32, Glynn Foster wrote:
> > Heya,
> > So Mark and myself had this great plan on Tuesday that we would sit down
> > and write a panel status mail to scare the living shit out of people and
> > convince everyone to hack on the panel....Well obviously, we forgot, so
> > I'm writing this mail from my point of view....this could be very far
> > from the truth :/ [and actually I will probably exaggerate things for
> > better effect].
> > 
> > - Easter Eggs
> > All easter eggs are broken [1]
> > 
> > - Menus
> > George has written a vfolder module for gnome-vfs which needs to be
> > implemented in the panel. The vfolder method for implementing George's
> > plan about how menus are sorted [2]
> > 
> > Ditem is also quite broken. It has been ported to gnome-vfs [mostly] and
> > barely works. It's completely broken wrt to encoding. I spent all day
> > trying to figure out why it wasn't working better...so now it is,
> > slightly, even if it really only displays nice icons on the panel once
> > again.
> > Also for some weird reason, when panels are set to autohide, the menus
> > aren't getting drawn.
> > 
> > - Panel Configuration
> > I've spent quite a while looking at the various global configuration
> > options and have since removed a large proportion of them. There is now
> > a schema file [only initial hacked up version] for the global panel
> > config.
> > 
> > GConf'izing hasn't happened very much. In fact the panel probably uses
> > 70% gnome_config and 30% gconf right now. No notification has been added
> > as yet. The intention is to follow Havoc's session proposal [3]. I think
> > it would probably be best to go with gconf for the global properties and
> > keep everything else using gnome_config for now. Notifications for the
> > global properties is, I think, a must.
> > 
> > - GObject & properties
> > A rather inconsistant, botched job so far. Been slowly changing things
> > to have a more consistant approach with the rest of GNOME 2.0 but lots
> > of work to be done here and probably much breakage and assed cracked
> > hacking. Panel still uses *huge* construct calls which would be better
> > done with properties.
> > 
> > - Applets
> > Actually I think this is the most promising bit for the GNOME 2.0 panel.
> > Applets are now bonobo controls and work is progressing very well for
> > this. Actually Mark could fill you in more about this because he's been
> > doing most of the work. In any case, the controls have context menus,
> > can be moved around and oriented. They are looking quite funky. The old
> > applet api is being deprecated/trashed.
> > 
> > - Accessibility
> > We've briefly talked to Bill and Calum about this. It's not quite a
> > priority now at the moment, but it really *has* to be done before the
> > GNOME 2.0 release [4]. We have a few notes and will discuss it with them
> > later on in development.
> > 
> > - Summary
> > Build GNOME 2.0 libraries. Build gnome-core/panel. Watch it die, right
> > out of the box!. Marvel at those broken menus. Amaze your friends when
> > panels start disappearing from your screen. Don't blame us because we're
> > the only ones hacking on it at the moment. Find a bug, fix it. Make the
> > world a better place to be. Break into histerics when you see the
> > release schedule. The panel *needs* YOU!.
> > 
> > 		Anyway, enough scare-mongering.
> > 				See ya,
> > 					Glynn :)
> > 
> > 
> > [1] Right, that's got George on board
> > 
> > [2] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2001-June/msg00029.html
> > 
> > [3] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2001-October/msg00128.html
> > 
> > [4] It's the center point of the desktop after all
> > 
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