How to get panel plugins running with Xfce 4.13?

[Olivier Duchateau]

On Tue, 15 May 2018 11:24:10 +0200
Paul Menzel <pmenzel+xfce at molgen.mpg.de> wrote:

> Dear Xfce folks,
> 
> 
> We are currently testing Xfce 4.13 and noticed, that – as expected and 
> documented [1] – some panel plugins do not work anymore.
> 
> Notably, the three plugins below are used here.
> 
> 1.  xfce4-cpugraph-plugin [1]
> 2.  xfce4-mailwatch-plugin [2]
> 3.  xfce4-weather-plugin [3]
> 
> Is there an update guide how to port plugins to GTK+ 3? Do you know of 
> companies or people, that could be contracted to do the work?
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> [1] https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.14/roadmap
> [2] https://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-cpugraph-plugin/
> [3] https://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-mailwatch-plugin/
> [4] https://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin/
> 

Hi,

xfce4-weather-plugin, works fine (I use it daily) on xfce4-panel 4.13.x (despite it is Gtk2 only). I started to port to Gtk3, but it's in stand by (lack of time).

xfce4-cpugraph-plugin also works fine (when I used it, on my FreeBSD box with unstable releases).

Regards,

-- 
olivier