about xfce4 panel plugins

[Nick Schermer]

2008/8/20 ali abdallah <ali.slackware at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if there is any way to add an applet from an application to
> the panel! i was navigating the source of xfce4.4 panel and i believe this
> isn't possible, but just i want to make sure, probably i missed something.

This is not possible for the moment, it will be in 4.8.

> Then i was thinking about the system tray, but another problem i have is the
> fact that i can't ask the panel about it's size, is there is any way to do
> get the panel size from a systray icon ?

No, and you also don't want to know this. Wat you really want to know
is the allocated widgets size of the tray icon. For example, the
GtkStatusIcon has gtk_status_icon_get_size().

Nick