Post-4.4: Appfinder

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
>>> I'll keep you (as in "the ML") informed about the appbrowser
>>> progress. The only thing that looks slightly non-trivial is the
>>> canvas stuff, but even that should be do-able.
>> We should probably wait for the GTK people. IIRC a GtkCanvas is
>> planned for one of the next releases.
> 
> I only took a quick look at the application browser used by GNOME
> (which is part of gnome-main-menu now) and AFAICS, GnomeCanvas is not
> used for anything there. The library containing structures and
> functions for the browser interface is called libslab:
> 
>   http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-main-menu/trunk/libslab/
> 
> As usual, the code is not what we would our code to look like. Instead
> of writing a clean container widget libslab only provides functions for
> creating and managing some V- and HBoxes.
> 
> I'm not sure, but perhaps we could start with the appbrowser straight
> away, without waiting for GtkCanvas.

Hm... it looked a lot like GnomeCanvas... anyway, more important than
the appbrowser UI is to finish frapmenu. There's still a lot of work, so
maybe GtkCanvas will be done before we're done with libfrapmenu. ;-)

>   - Jannis

Benedikt