Netk deprecation notice [WAS Re: [proposal] Modify the panel-plugin interface, add 'powersave-mode'.]

[Stephan Arts]

On 7/14/07, Stephan Arts <stephan at xfce.org> wrote:
> On 7/13/07, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > This is to inform officially my intention to get rid of the Netk* stuff
> > in Xfce 4.6 [1]
> >
> > All new code should avoid Netk* and older code will be ported to libwnck.
> >
> > Historically, the Netk* functions were forked from the libwnck back in
> > the old days were libwnck API was not stable.
> >
> > Nowadays, there is no reason to keep doing this, so let's get rid of it.
> > This duplication of code is a waste of time for us.
> >
> > I volunteered for the job, but all help is more than welcome [2]. I
> > expect the amount of work to be fairly reasonable though.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Olivier.
> >
> >   [1] The original idea and proposal came from Vincent Untz, who is the
> > current maintainer of libwnck.
> >   [2] Just le me know, so we don't end up doing the same work twice...
>
> If you, nick and jasper are alright with it, i'd love to start with
> the panel-plugins that use netk.

Any idea which version of libwnck we can depend on?[1]

Regards,

Stephan

[1] http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libwnck/