[Debian-hebrew-package] GNOME 3 and panel applets

kobi zamir kobi.zamir at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 17:47:48 UTC 2011


It's not just a flag in configure :-( ,

I tried to make a patch but a lot of files changed.
Because making  a patch was complicated, I removed the panel parts and
repackaged:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/hspell-gui/files/hspell-gui/hspell-gui-0.2.6/hspell-gui-0.2.6-no-pa.tar.bz2/download

kobi

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Lior Kaplan <kaplan at debian.org> wrote:
> How do I disable the gnome-panel support in hspell-gui ?
>
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:06 PM, kobi zamir <kobi.zamir at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> hspell-gui - does not need the applet, just disable gnome-panel support.
>>
>> hdate-applet - has a none-complete support for using the notification area
>> hdate-icon. we need to disable gnome-panel support, and use the hdate-icon
>> notification area icon.
>>
>> kobi
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> [Bcc: all maintainers of GNOME applets]
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> as it was already mentioned for other reasons, GNOME 3 is just around
>>> the corner, and there are some big changes ahead. DO NOT PANIC: the
>>> current desktop with gnome-panel and metacity will remain as an
>>> alternative. Anyone wanting to troll about how gnome-shell sucks is
>>> invited to do so elsewhere, since the topic here is gnome-panel.
>>>
>>> The panel remains, but it will be a GTK3 / D-Bus panel. In its current
>>> state, it doesn’t support the good old GTK2 / bonobo applets, of which
>>> we have a lot in the archive. Upstream confirmed they don’t have time to
>>> support them for 3.0 unless someone steps up to do the job.
>>>
>>> If you develop, maintain or use one of those packages, and you don’t
>>> want it to disappear, your options are now:
>>>
>>>     1. Prepare to disable gnome-panel support (that’s for packages
>>>        which already have other options, such as using the notification
>>>        area).
>>>     2. If meaningful (it depends on the applet), switch to another
>>>        technology such as libappindicator or the notification area.
>>>     3. Port your applet to GTK3 and the new D-Bus API. The bindings for
>>>        Python and C# will probably not work either, so you might have
>>>        to start with them.
>>>     4. Step up and do the work to add support for bonobo applets in the
>>>        panel.
>>>
>>> Option 4 is the only way to keep all applets with low maintenance in
>>> Debian. It should be possible by developing a gateway D-Bus service that
>>> loads a bonobo applet in a process separate from the panel and proxies
>>> signals through it. If you are interested, please get in touch with
>>> upstream. If no one is interested, a large portion of the following list
>>> is going to leave the archive.
>>>
>>>
>>> David Villa Alises <David.Villa at uclm.es>
>>>   ows
>>>
>>> Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at debian.org>
>>>   lock-keys-applet
>>>   mboxcheck-applet
>>>   netspeed
>>>
>>> Vincent Bernat <bernat at debian.org>
>>>   xnee
>>>
>>> Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>
>>>   tracker
>>>   vinagre (U)
>>>
>>> Laurent Bigonville <bigon at debian.org>
>>>   gnome-mag (U)
>>>
>>> Salvatore Bonaccorso <salvatore.bonaccorso at gmail.com>
>>>   giplet
>>>
>>> Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org>
>>>   link-monitor-applet
>>>
>>> Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at debian.org>
>>>   hdate-applet (U)
>>>
>>> LI Daobing <lidaobing at debian.org>
>>>   lunar-applet
>>>
>>> Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
>>>   deskbar-applet
>>>   gnome-mag (U)
>>>   gnome-main-menu (U)
>>>   gnome-netstatus (U)
>>>   gnome-utils
>>>   hamster-applet (U)
>>>   mousetweaks (U)
>>>   netspeed (U)
>>>   ontv (U)
>>>   seahorse-plugins (U)
>>>   tsclient
>>>   vinagre (U)
>>>
>>> Debian Hebrew Packaging Team
>>> <debian-hebrew-package at lists.alioth.debian.org>
>>>   hdate-applet
>>>   hspell-gui
>>>
>>> Debian Xfce Maintainers <pkg-xfce-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
>>>   xfce4-xfapplet-plugin
>>>
>>> Barry deFreese <bddebian at comcast.net>
>>>   xnee (U)
>>>
>>> Sebastian Dröge <slomo at debian.org>
>>>   deskbar-applet (U)
>>>   gnome-mag (U)
>>>   gnome-netstatus (U)
>>>   gnome-utils (U)
>>>   hamster-applet (U)
>>>   mousetweaks (U)
>>>   ontv (U)
>>>   seahorse-plugins (U)
>>>   service-discovery-applet
>>>   vinagre (U)
>>>
>>> Diego Fernández Durán <diego at goedi.net>
>>>   quick-lounge-applet
>>>
>>> Baruch Even <baruch at debian.org>
>>>   hdate-applet (U)
>>>   hspell-gui (U)
>>>
>>> Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz at debian.org>
>>>   remmina-gnome
>>>
>>> Anthony Fok <foka at debian.org>
>>>   lunar-applet (U)
>>>
>>> Pedro Fragoso <ember at ubuntu.com>
>>>   hamster-applet
>>>
>>> Filippo Giunchedi <filippo at esaurito.net>
>>>   sensors-applet (U)
>>>
>>> Rudy Godoy <rudy at kernel-panik.org>
>>>   xfce4-xfapplet-plugin (U)
>>>
>>> Gustavo Iñiguez Goya <ga at kutxa.homeunix.org>
>>>   gnome-inm-forecast
>>>
>>> Fabian Greffrath <fabian at debian-unofficial.org>
>>>   glunarclock (U)
>>>
>>> Debian QA Group <packages at qa.debian.org>
>>>   ddccontrol
>>>   gnome-pilot
>>>
>>> Jeremy Guitton <debotux at free.fr>
>>>   ontv
>>>
>>> Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org>
>>>   window-picker-applet
>>>
>>> Jerry Haltom <wasabi at larvalstage.net>
>>>   gnome-netstatus
>>>
>>> Clement 'nodens' Hermann <clement.hermann at free.fr>
>>>   tsclient (U)
>>>
>>> Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog at debian.org>
>>>   indicator-applet (U)
>>>
>>> Simon Huggins <huggie at earth.li>
>>>   xfce4-xfapplet-plugin (U)
>>>
>>> Lior Kaplan <kaplan at debian.org>
>>>   hdate-applet (U)
>>>   hspell-gui (U)
>>>
>>> Philipp Kern <pkern at debian.org>
>>>   timer-applet
>>>
>>> Julian Andres Klode <jak at debian.org>
>>>   gnome-main-menu
>>>
>>> Kilian Krause <kilian at debian.org>
>>>   tsclient (U)
>>>
>>> Mario Lang <mlang at debian.org>
>>>   gnome-mag (U)
>>>
>>> John Lightsey <lightsey at debian.org>
>>>   apt-watch
>>>
>>> Martin Loschwitz <madkiss at debian.org>
>>>   xfce4-xfapplet-plugin (U)
>>>
>>> Francois Marier <francois at debian.org>
>>>   verbiste
>>>   workrave
>>>
>>> Fladischer Michael <FladischerMichael at fladi.at>
>>>   panflute
>>>
>>> Robert Millan <rmh.debian at aybabtu.com>
>>>   gnote
>>>
>>> Loic Minier <lool at dooz.org>
>>>   computertemp (U)
>>>   gnome-mag (U)
>>>   gnome-netstatus (U)
>>>   gnome-utils (U)
>>>   netspeed (U)
>>>   service-discovery-applet (U)
>>>   tsclient (U)
>>>
>>> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at debian.org>
>>>   deskbar-applet (U)
>>>   gnome-main-menu (U)
>>>   gnome-utils (U)
>>>   hamster-applet (U)
>>>   mousetweaks (U)
>>>   ontv (U)
>>>   seahorse-plugins
>>>   vinagre
>>>
>>> Sam Morris <sam at robots.org.uk>
>>>   sensors-applet
>>>
>>> Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org>
>>>   deskbar-applet (U)
>>>   gnome-mag (U)
>>>   gnome-netstatus (U)
>>>   gnome-utils (U)
>>>   hamster-applet (U)
>>>   mousetweaks
>>>   netspeed (U)
>>>   seahorse-plugins (U)
>>>   tsclient (U)
>>>   vinagre (U)
>>>
>>> Jose M. Moya <josem at debian.org>
>>>   gai
>>>   shermans-aquarium
>>>
>>> Francesco Namuri <francesco at namuri.it>
>>>   drapes
>>>
>>> Kiwamu Okabe <kiwamu at debian.or.jp>
>>>   uim
>>>
>>> Barak A. Pearlmutter <bap at debian.org>
>>>   gnome-randr-applet
>>>
>>> Adriaan Peeters <apeeters at lashout.net>
>>>   computertemp
>>>
>>> Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at corsac.net>
>>>   xfce4-xfapplet-plugin (U)
>>>
>>> Frederic Peters <fpeters at debian.org>
>>>   gnome-blog
>>>
>>> Ari Pollak <ari at debian.org>
>>>   hardware-monitor
>>>
>>> Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals <rainct at ubuntu.com>
>>>   webboard
>>>
>>> Python Applications Packaging Team
>>> <python-apps-team at lists.alioth.debian.org>
>>>   panflute (U)
>>>
>>> Alexander Reichle-Schmehl <tolimar at debian.org>
>>>   xpenguins-applet
>>>
>>> Rogerio Reis <rvr at debian.org>
>>>   gspot
>>>
>>> Emanuele Rocca <ema at debian.org>
>>>   xfce4-xfapplet-plugin (U)
>>>
>>> Daniel Ruoso <daniel at ruoso.com>
>>>   gnome-mag
>>>
>>> Changwoo Ryu <cwryu at debian.org>
>>>   imhangul-status-applet
>>>
>>> Shachar Shemesh <shachar at debian.org>
>>>   hdate-applet (U)
>>>   hspell-gui (U)
>>>
>>> Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov at debian.org>
>>>   gnome-utils (U)
>>>
>>> Adam Sjøgren <asjo at koldfront.dk>
>>>   bubblemon
>>>
>>> Soeren Sonnenburg <sonne at debian.org>
>>>   cpufire-applet
>>>
>>> Christine Spang <christine at debian.org>
>>>   glunarclock
>>>
>>> Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <a.starr.b at gmail.com>
>>>   file-browser-applet
>>>   indicator-applet (U)
>>>
>>> Roland Stigge <stigge at antcom.de>
>>>   gnubiff
>>>
>>> TANIGUCHI Takaki <takaki at debian.org>
>>>   g2ipmsg
>>>
>>> The Ayatana Packagers <pkg-ayatana-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
>>>   indicator-applet
>>>
>>> Davide Truffa <davide at catoblepa.org>
>>>   glipper
>>>
>>> Bastian Venthur <venthur at debian.org>
>>>   byzanz
>>>
>>> Stefan Völkel <stefan at bc-bd.org>
>>>   revelation
>>>
>>> Ian Wienand <ianw at debian.org>
>>>   teatime
>>>
>>> Deng Xiyue <manphiz-guest at users.alioth.debian.org>
>>>   gnome-netstatus (U)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> --
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