panel and xfconf

[Stephan Arts]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Bo Lorentsen<bl at lue.dk> wrote:
> Mike Massonnet wrote:
>>
>> The rc like functions are exposed to panel plugins, and there is good
>> reason to not drop these functions because many plugins use them and
>> will continue to use them probably. The internal configuration of the
>> panel uses Xfconf already, if panel plugin writters wish to use Xfconf
>> to store settings they can, and for that they will have to include and
>> depend on libxfconf.
>
> Ok, thanks ... that makes sense. So the rc files remain an relevant method
> for storing panel config in all future, and will not event become deprecated
> ?
>>
>> The new panel 4.8 offers two functions for plugin
>> writers to ease the access on a default xfconf channel:
>> xfce_panel_plugin_xfconf_channel_new() and
>> xfce_panel_plugin_get_property_base().
>>
>
> Ok, this is what I was missing :-) But this will again make the future
> plugins depending on the xfconf, just indirectly (not that is matter much,
> as the panel already are) ?
>
> When will the 4.8 API show up in svn ?

It won't, all that's in SVN will move to git.

-
Stephan