Remove Iconbox panel plugin

Stephan Arts stephan at xfce.org
Sun Jul 15 23:57:04 CEST 2007


On 7/14/07, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:17:32 +0100 Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> >
> > Stephan Arts wrote:
> > > On 7/14/07, Stephan Arts <stephan at xfce.org> wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I am going over the panel-plugins, and I noticed the similarities
> > >> between the iconbox and the tasklist plugins. When the tasklist is
> > >> configured not to show the window-names, it behaves similar to the
> > >> icon-box.
> > >>
> > >> Since this seems somewhat redundant;
> > >> What do you think about removing the Iconbox panel plugin?
> > >
> > > I have been looking at libwnck, and this does not support
> > > set_show_label, so instead of removing the iconbox. I will remove
> > > the show_window_names option from the tasklist, if that's ok with
> > > you.
> >
> > Well, the good part of the "deal" with Vincent is that we can propose
> > patches if there are things we are missing in libwnck...
> >
> > I didn't check the code, but I believe adding the set_show_label() to
> > libwnck wouldn't be too hard.
> >
> > So I'd rather put the code between ifdef for the time being and if
> > set_show_label() is available at some point in the future in libwnck,
> > then we'll remove the ifdef.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> Agreed.  And of course leave the iconbox in as it doesn't behave quite
> the same as the tasklist.

Ok, i've fixed it that way. :-)


Stephan



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