This is Vala rewrite of SimplePanel, GTK3 LXPanel fork.
TODO:
- Rewrite core panel in Vala (0.2)
- Rewrite builtin plugins in Vala using libpeas. (0.2)
- Write Vala Panel Plugin wrapper for LXTray from simple-panel (it is less buggy) (0.2) (done in XEmbed plugin)
- Make global menus from Unity Appindicator (rewrite it on Vala but without Ubuntu deps) (0.3) (see https://github.com/rilian-la-te/vala-panel-appmenu)
- Write a window buttons applet (0.3)
- Write Notification Center Applet (0.4)
- Going to C again (0.4)
- Wayland support, make compositor and complete Wayland support(1.0)
- Taskbar DBus library for compositor (1.0)
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Redo ValaPanelIconGrid using GtkFlowBox and such wonders.(not needed since I am already using FlowBox everywhere)
TODO for 0.4.0:
- Rewrite plugins API and core into C
- Split Toplevel into 3 objects: positioner, layout and window
- Made PanelManager
- Allow positioner to be changed and dynamically linked
Some notes about realization
Plugin based panel. Users/developers can provide their own custom applets, which are fully integrated. They can be moved, added, removed again, and even broken.
Dependencies:
Core:
- GLib (>= 2.44.0)
- GTK3 (>= 3.16.0)
- libpeas-1.0
- valac
Plugins:
- libwnck (>= 3.4.7)
- libX11
Lastly, always set -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREXIX=/usr when using cmake, otherwise you won't be able to start the panel on most distros
- Athor ria.freelander@gmail.com
- Ikey Doherty ikey@evolve-os.com for sidebar widget and inspirations.
- LXPanel team https://github.com/lxde/lxpanel for doing a base for my fork. Altrough one piece from lxpanel code in this is tray, but many inspirations is carrying around (Notable examples is generic-config-dialog.vala and most positioning and autohide code in toplevel.vala)
- Budgie Desktop https://github.com/evolve-os/budgie-desktop/
- LXPanel https://github.com/lxde/lxpanel