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Message #00006
The fork situation
Hi everybody!
Due to the unhappy situation of the screenlets being forked into the
universal-applets project there is some need to reorganize things, I
guess.
I want to make clear that I have no interest in either of the projects
being abandoned or shut down in favor of the other. Instead I'd propose
that we try to "share responsibilities", which means we logically
separate the universal applets system from the screenlets as widget
framework.
One possibility I can see would be to have universal applets handle the
whole "pluggable applet" thing (I think that part is called the "melange
server", right?) and the underlying IPC-framework. The screenlets would
stay a widget engine but would become subclasses of a PluggableApplet or
alike. That way the universal-applets would focus on the underlying
framework that can be embedded into gtk apps and the screenlets would
mainly focus on the front-end and user-visible part. That way we maybe
could get the best of both worlds without interfering.
Of course this is just a first rough idea and I am open to any other
proposals so please let me know what you think. Thanks in advance!
best regards
Rico (RYX)