[Lxde-list] lxpanel plugins

[Piotr Sipika <piotr.sipika@gm...>]

Hi All.

First off: many thanks to all those who made LXDE happen and all
contributors over the years.

I took the liberty of updating the LXPanel Plugin HowTo Wiki page [1].
I realize I did not consult the group beforehand, but the edit was done
as myself, so if there are any issues, please let me know. Thanks to
2noob2banoob for putting together nice intro to plugin development [2].

During the upgrade of LXPanel (0.5.6 [Fedora 16 default] to 0.5.8), I
bumped into another dependency of LXPanel (coming from the netstat
plugin) - the patch for which is attached.

I did some searching in the archives and, from what I've been able to
gather [3], it is preferred to have release-ready plugins be part of the
LXPanel repository.  This is fine for the number of plugins there are
'today', but once the number starts to increase [if], it might be
worthwhile to reconsider this approach for non-essential plugins. I
realize this topic has been almost beaten-to-death, and judging which
plugins are essential is subjective, but I'd like to keep the topic
'alive' and open for discussion in the future.

Thanks and best wishes,

Piotr


[1] http://wiki.lxde.org/en/How_to_write_plugins_for_LXPanel
[2] http://home.student.utwente.nl/j.vanderhoff/LXPanel_HowTo.html
[3] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=22749232

[Lxde-list] lxpanel plugins

[Piotr Sipika <piotr.sipika@gm...>]

Hi All.

First off: many thanks to all those who made LXDE happen and all
contributors over the years.

I took the liberty of updating the LXPanel Plugin HowTo Wiki page [1].
I realize I did not consult the group beforehand, but the edit was done
as myself, so if there are any issues, please let me know. Thanks to
2noob2banoob for putting together nice intro to plugin development [2].

During the upgrade of LXPanel (0.5.6 [Fedora 16 default] to 0.5.8), I
bumped into another dependency of LXPanel (coming from the netstat
plugin) - the patch for which is attached.

I did some searching in the archives and, from what I've been able to
gather [3], it is preferred to have release-ready plugins be part of the
LXPanel repository.  This is fine for the number of plugins there are
'today', but once the number starts to increase [if], it might be
worthwhile to reconsider this approach for non-essential plugins. I
realize this topic has been almost beaten-to-death, and judging which
plugins are essential is subjective, but I'd like to keep the topic
'alive' and open for discussion in the future.

Thanks and best wishes,

Piotr


[1] http://wiki.lxde.org/en/How_to_write_plugins_for_LXPanel
[2] http://home.student.utwente.nl/j.vanderhoff/LXPanel_HowTo.html
[3] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=22749232