xfce weather applet

[Art Edwards]

On 11/28/2011 04:19 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:04:48 -0700
> Art Edwards <edwardsa at icantbelieveimdoingthis.com> wrote:
>
>>>> Just to clarify a possible misunderstanding, the xfapplet-plugin
>>>> was removed in Debian, and Ubuntu at our request: it’s
>>>> unmaintained and it only supports GNOME2 applets, so it blocked
>>>> the GNOME3 transition in Debian; in Ubuntu, gnome3 is more or less
>>>> in oneiric, so it was removed as well
>>> mike
>>>
>> Who is the /we /in that post. As I read the thread, it seems that
>> Cannonical is trying to force the use of gnome 3 straight-up.
>>
> thats a pretty unfair statement ... gnome upstream decided to make the
> v3 libs incompatible with the v2 ones, most packages that arent ported
> to v3 cant even build from source (the above applet is among them).
> there is *nothing* canonical can do. to my knowledge lionel never
> worked for canonical and speaks for the xubuntu developer community
> only ... please stop that canonical conspiracy nonsense, canonical has
> nothing to do with upstream decisions here and can only react on a
> technical level to them. if you want to know about such changes in
> advance, read the respective upstream lists, blogs or blog aggregators
> (planet.gnome.org for example). such things are also usually discussed
> between upstream community and ubuntu developer community at UDS which
> is publically held and where you can participate remotely via voip,
> video streams, irc, collaborative editors etc ... 
>
> there was nothing secret about this change nor was canonical involved
> in any of the gnome decisions.
>
> ciao
> 	oli
Thank you for explaining that. After I posted that, I realized xfapplet
may depend on gnome 2, so ... I did ask some other specific questions in
the post.

Is there a weather applet (and others) in gnome 3?

I'm guessing that if there is that xfce could try to make xfapplet
compatible with those, although, absent a gnome panel, the rewrite might
be more complicated. However, we have ~18 months until the libraries go
away in natty.

Art Edwards