xfapplet panel plugin

[Adriano Winter Bess]

2006/4/23, Stefan Stuhr <xfceuserslist at sstuhr.dk>:
> [...]
> However:
>       * It's possible to open multiple xfapplet properties windows while
>         an applet is active. That is, the right click menu of applets
>         doesn't get deactivated in the same way as is normal the case
>         for most Xfce4 panel plugins when the properties dialog of the
>         plugin is open. A possible solution could be to check whether a
>         properties dialog is already open before making a new one, and
>         if that's the case, present the existing properties dialog to
>         the user.

Thanks for reporting this. Actually, the properties dialog behavior
used to be identical to other plugins, but I've made some
modifications recently that broke it. You may consider to file a bug
against xfapplet, I'll look at it when I'm back home.

>       * Please add an option to expand the applet in the panel, in the
>         same way as it's done for the Xfce4panel separator plugin. This
>         would especially be useful for the GNOME task list applet, if
>         one should want to use that (and I would consider to do just
>         that, see bug #1287[1] for one of my reasons).

Interesting, I've never bothered to test xfapplet with applets for
which there are equivalent xfce plugins, I guess no one would ever use
them. But I'll check that either.

>       * The task list and status area applets lacks the handle they have
>         in gnome-panel, making the applet right click menu unavailable.

Again, never tested it, but thanks for reporting. I'll see what can be done.

>       * xfapplet currently claims to depend on ORBit-2.0 2.12.5. Is
>         there a reason for this? I have ORBit-2.0 2.12.4, and had to
>         edit configure.ac.in in order to configure xfapplet, and
>         xfapplet seems to work just fine with that version of ORBit-2.0.

Yes, unfortunetelly there is (this is stated in ChangeLog). Please
take a look at Gnome bugzilla #322730 [1]. As you'll find out there,
neither Gnome developers had a plain understanding about the problem,
but the fact is that it was crashing for me and the dependency needed
to be added. If it works for you with ORBit-2.12.4, you're lucky ;)
What may be happening is that you do not notice the crash, because it
happens on exit. Try running xfce-panel from a terminal window with
core dumps enabled and see if you get a core from xfapplet.

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322730
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Adriano Winter Bess
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