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[tabbernuk <boamaod@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey, Justin, I think there is some special field inside this .desktop
file to say it should be included in System Settings panel.

About broader topics... Of course there is demand for desktop widgets,
but I think the demand is not strong enough to give rise to a good
widgets framework for GNOME. Screenlets is actually not very well
designed framework, if we compare it to KDE Plasmoids for example, which
has data and presentation clearly separated etc. I think even GDesklets
is better designed in this respect (if we don't think of some other
flaws). Screenlets has lived for a long time and is been criticized a
lot, there was an initiative to redesign it as https://launchpad.net
/universal-applets but this was never finished. Some people work on
GDesklets because they think it is better... I personally have tried to
convince some devs to unite efforts to create a good widgets framework
for GNOME (and modify GNOME itself to make it easier to provide
widgets), but nobody has been interested enough. That's why about two
years ago I took up responsibility to keep Screenlets working in latest
Ubuntu versions. That's the main thing I have been doing and I
personally don't have plans to engage myself in massive rewriting of
Screenlets. I'd say porting Plasmoids framework could be even better
idea. But I welcome everybody willing to try to enhance the situation
and I can help a bit.

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