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README
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PerlPanel is an attempt to build a useable, lean panel program (like
GNOME's gnome-panel and KDE's Kicker) in Perl, using Gtk2. There are
several reasons for this:
1. I really enjoy programming with Gtk+ and Perl. It's neat.
2. Using a popular language like Perl lowers the barrier to
entry, so a lot more people can contribute.
3. It makes C purists go a funny shade of purple.
4. Because there's nothing like it at the moment.
5. Perl's built-in garbage collection and optimisation means
that it may well perform better on low-end systems than
similar programs.
A few tenets:
1. Everything is OO.
2. GNOME rocks, but not everyone likes or can use GNOME. So we
avoid using it and stick to pure Gtk[1].
3. Sane defaults. Not everyone wants a CPU/eth meter by default.
4. Everything (apart from these tenets) is subject to debate. If
something is broken in the panel/applet/config systems, then
we can fix it. I can't imagine a normal user will want to use
PerlPanel for a long time, so breaking compatability between
versions is no problem.
A few wahs, or, TODO:
1. Support for multiheaded systems - there is a way to kludge this
but a "proper" solution is more desirable.
2. One day, all applets will be widgets in their own right, and
will inherit from a base class that will let us do neat things
like having standard pop-ups. Maybe the Panel will also be a
widget as well.
3. Translations are incomplete.
4. There is some sort of race in autohide mode - if the pointer
hits a particular pixel, the panel flashes on and off very
quickly.
[1]: We use the Gnome2::Wnck library for the launch feedback, tasklist,
show desktop button and pager, and Gnome2::VFS for various other stuff.
However these modules don't require the rest of the Gnome2 modules -
they're just named that way because they're maintained by the GNOME
developers.
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$Id: README,v 1.16 2004/11/07 20:01:45 jodrell Exp $
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