Re: Panel Status - GNOME 2.0

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 01:30:55PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> We need the panel to be made to work, including the accessibility
> part. For that to happen someone needs to go in there and make the
> necessary changes. That will happen at the time that someone makes
> those changes. I don't think anyone will say "noooo! you may not hack
> the panel!!!" at any point.

I am not known to say no to people hacking the panel.  Priorities are
whatever people work on really.  If you want something done faster then
something else do the following sequence:

1) vi foo.c
2) make
3) cvs commit

:)

> So, the issue here is when we can get someone to do the accessibility
> work. I would suggest that there are two stages of work: we need a
> volunteer to make a description of how the panel works with regard to
> keynav, accessibility etc. (a spec), and then we need a volunteer to
> do the implementation. So we are blocking on need for these two
> volunteers, not on anything else.
> 
> There's probably plenty of time before GNOME 2 to do the accessibility
> work, it looks like Mark already has the panel basically coming on
> screen and so forth.

Yeah mark has done a lot of cool work on the panel lately and he hasn't even
complained loudly about my code either.

George

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