Skeleton Panel Plugin

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:55:26 -0500
David Schneider <dnschneid at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, I'm interested in making a small plugin that embeds other
> application windows into the panel (such as the pidgin buddy list).
> 
> Is there a good skeleton plugin that I can start from?  If not, which
> (preferably simple) plugin do you recommend learning the basic
> requirements and preferred style from? I have plenty of C experience,
> but have only touched GTK through Python and haven't dealt with Xfce
> libraries at all.

Have a look at the sample plugin:

  http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-sample-plugin/

That might help you get started.

  - Jannis