Planning for for 4.4 panel

[Peeter Vois]

Hi

>So, how to go about this? 
>
>- Create a (GObject based) plugin implementation with interface 
>  completely separate from panel internals.
>  
>
GTK1.2 had sockets for placing windows of different process into.

>- Port all plugins (from the panel and from the goodies) to the new 
>  interface.
>
>- Implement support for multiple panels.
>
>- Implement support for out-of-proces plugin, with the same interface
>  as in-process plugins.
>
>We could always decide to skip the last or even the last two points for
>4.4 and implement those for 4.6 if time is running short.
>
>Does this sound reasonable or are there better ways to handle this?
>
>  
>

Peeter