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 7/14/07, 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]

I just used 2.18.3, and I still had to define
WNCK_I_KNOW_THIS_IS_UNSTABLE in order to use it.

Are you sure the api is frozen now?

Regards,

Stephan