panel and xfconf

[Mike Massonnet]

2009/7/27 Bo Lorentsen <bl at lue.dk>:
> 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
> ?

RC file style will always be around, I guess. Nick may have another
opinion on that maybe.

>>
>> 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 ?

As Stephan said, things are moving to git. The xfce panel 4.8 is
available in git.xfce.org.

> /BL

Mike