Notes on the new panel

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Thu Sep 22 10:51:19 CEST 2005


Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
>>>I think the clock widget should be taken out of libgui and be part of 
>>>the clock plugin. Nothing else is using it, AFAIK.
>>
>>I always wondered why that was in libgui in the first place...  But
>>taking it out will break ABI.  Granted, there's a 99% chance that no one
>>in the entire world but the panel is using it, but...
> 
> 99.99% would be closer, I think. I'm still in favor of moving it.
> 
> One of the advantages of being small (still) is that the damage of 
> breaking compatibility is smaller as well.
> 
> Anyone else want to comment on this? Benny? Olivier?

Put it into the clock plugin (remember, you'll need to use dynamic types 
here if you want to use it in-process), but don't remove it from 
libxfcegui4 now.

Benedikt



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