Hi Colin,
thanks for the info.
Am Freitag, den 11.02.2011, 10:46 -0500 schrieb Colin Walters:
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Christoph Wickert
<christoph.wickert(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> What is the future of panel applets?
There is none in Fedora right now.
What does this mean for me as a maintainer of several applets?
> A lot of them (all?) failed to build in the ongoing mass
rebuild, so I
> wonder
> * if they will be completely dropped or still work with
> gnome-panel in fallback mode?
I don't think it makes sense to invest a lot of engineering time into
fallback; so it will likely be very close to what it is now. If an
applet is adapted to the changes in libpanel-applet-3.0 I guess it
could work in fallback.
OK, it seems like some of my packages built successfully, so I assume
applets are not completely dead for now, at least from a technical POV.
> * if we should continue maintaining then and if not, if
there are
> any plans to make gnome-panel obsolete the orphaned applets?
Depends on the particular applet upstream I guess.
I don't think so, I was rather thinking of the packaging site. We need
to have proper Provides/Obsoletes in place for a clean upgrade.
Regards,
Christoph