xfce4-xfapplet-plugin

[Biju Chacko]

Adriano Winter Bess wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've started some weeks ago to study Gnome applets and the Bonobo system
> willing to write a plugin for the Xfce panel capable of displaying Gnome
> applets. Now I'd like to share the first draft of the plugin ;)
> 
> It's still missing a lot of stuff, but it works fine - at least for me -
> and proves it can be done. I've put a screenshot of my Xfce panel here:
> 
> http://www.das.ufsc.br/~adrianob/xfce4-panel-with-xfapplet.png
> 
> All items between the red bars are actually Gnome applets (they are
> GDict, Sticky Notes, Mount Volume, GEyes and Netstatus) being displayed
> through the Xfce panel plugin, namely XfApplet.
> 
> For those who want to try by themselves, I've put a tarball here:
> 
> http://www.das.ufsc.br/~adrianob/xfapplet.tar.bz2
> 
> As I said before, it still misses a lot of functionallity. On the
> tarball you'll find one source file, a (very) simple Makefile and a
> simple .desktop file. Please remember to change the last line in the
> .desktop file to the correct path.
> 
> Usage of the plugin is quite simple: in the configuration dialog you'll
> be able to choose an applet to display.
> 
> I hope I can work more on it the next weeks. Any feedback is
> appreciated.

This is a neat hack. Very cool!

I just hope it doesn't kill the incentive to write native plugins.

-- b