LionDoge / vala-panel

Vala rewrite of SimplePanel

Development is suspended for year (I am in the army now)

Vala Panel

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)
• 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

Author

• Athor [e-mail]

Special thanks:

• Ikey Doherty [e-mail] 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)

Inspirations

• Budgie Desktop https://github.com/evolve-os/budgie-desktop/
• LXPanel https://github.com/lxde/lxpanel