Apparently a lot of people want to be able to write mono panel applet. I have received a lot of emails asking about it, and asking for the code. After some thinking, and some talking to Mike, we have decided to include the panelapplet functionality in Gtk# 2.0.
What that means, is that you, the developer wanting to write a panel applet, will get this functionality as soon as we transition to 2.0, which is when we wrap all the new gtk+ 2.4 and gnome 2.6 API. So, what does this mean to you? Well, as Mike has previously said, we wont be binding this API until we have 100% doc coverage in Glib, Pango, Atk, Gdk, Gtk, and Gnome (minus the Printing support). So, write lots of good docs, and the ability to write panel applets will be yours. The more docs you write, the sooner the functionality is there.
Go grab monodoc, and start submitting docs, its easy, and its fun. :)
Posted by tberman at July 2, 2004 04:23 AM