Suggestion about new panel app

[紳癒礁湖 (Rafael Laguna)]

目 Sun, 2 Sep 2012 13:58:30 -0400, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset <jpxsat at gmail.com> 書いた：

> 2012/9/2 紳癒礁湖 <rafaellaguna at gmail.com>
> 
> > 目 Sun, 2 Sep 2012 11:51:09 -0400, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset <
> > jpxsat at gmail.com> 書いた：
> >
> > > Today I made a little search about lightweight distros and apparently
> > many
> > > of them use tint2 as panel.
> > > I remember a while ago when gtk3 arrived, that lxpanel would be a little
> > > complicated to port to gtk3.
> > > So maybe I was thinking that instead of re-create lxpanel maybe we could
> > > use another lightweight existing panel.
> > > I'm using tint2 right now and it's consuming less than 3mb of ram.
> > Sistray
> > > and the clock are there.
> > > Even more, dependencies are just two files taking 324kb on the
> > > installations disc
> > > Additionally, it's very customizable so our design team could play with
> > it
> > > :)
> > > But not everything is perfect: I miss a menu on the left, but maybe our
> > > devs can do something cool about it.
> > > What do you think? IMHO it's look is quite refreshing, it's lightning
> > fast
> > > and resources are 1/5 of what lxpanel uses...
> > >
> > > -- jpxsat
> >
> >
> > Tint2 is a great panel, and visually very powerfull. But it lacks of menu
> > button, launchers, ubuntu compatible indicators, and plugins sucha resource
> > meter. There're other panels we can play with, like PyPanel or PerlPanel.
> > It would be great if the actual lxpanel will become a Vala program.
> >
> > --
> > 紳癒礁湖 (Rafael Laguna)
> > Lubuntu Artwork Team
> >
> 
> Every indicator that was in my gnome systray is there on tint2 systray &
> Launchers can be added.*
> > But not everything is perfect: I miss a menu on the left, but maybe our
> > devs can do something cool about it.
> Enhance tint2 instead of rewrite lxpanel?
> I'm sorry to think that it's always better to improve already existing and
> working programs instead of beginning everything from scratch (as pcman
> said that a lxpanel rewrite would be ;)
> 
> Anyways, I'm not a dev so is up to them :)
> I'm just trying to point options here :)
> 
> *http://bbs.archbang.org/viewtopic.php?id=2859 (maybe a simple GUI for this
> would be cool)
> 
> -- jpxsat


I'm not a dev neither, and maybe I'm wrong. anyway, the other panels I mentioned are forks of lxpanel. So any idea is welcome. But I like lxpanel, it should be great to get it revamped. From Uruk Rama's gerat blog I found all these, that are real alternatives, but GTK2:

- pypanel (updated on 2005)
- fbpanel (updated on 2010)
- perlpanel (updated on 2005)
- bmpanel2 (updated on 2011)
- barpanell (abandoned)
- tint2 (updated on 2010)
- visibility (updated on 2008)

I must remember that this blog is not updated since a long time. So new panels could be born without any mention. Anyway, this simple list shows us that LXPanel is our best option right now. Also is the only that integrates with the environment.

What do you think?

-- 
紳癒礁湖 (Rafael Laguna)
Lubuntu Artwork Team