Future of panel applets

[Clyde E. Kunkel]

On 02/11/2011 06:16 AM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> What is the future of panel applets?
>
> A lot of them (all?) failed to build in the ongoing mass rebuild, so I
> wonder
>        * if they will be completely dropped or still work with
>          gnome-panel in fallback mode?
>        * if we should continue maintaining then and if not, if there are
>          any plans to make gnome-panel obsolete the orphaned applets?
>
> I know that GNOME 3 is a big step ahead, but frankly speaking I'm a
> little worried about the massive impact on other packages / desktops /
> maintainers on the one hand and the lack of communication on the other.
>
> Can you please provide the maintainers more info in order to reduce the
> fallout we currently see in rawhide?
>
> Regards,
> Christoph
>

Also, where has the functionality they provide gone?  I don't see 
equivalent functions in gnome shell. (Maybe I need to look harder?)

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OldFart