| Revision 25077 (by nick, 2007/03/03 19:26:06) |
* Import my 4_5_nick branch into trunk:
- Completely rewritten launcher (Bugs 2336, 2365, 1323, 2262 and 1225)
- Various improvements in libxfce4panel (memory leaks, G_GNUC_INTERNAL,
GSList, canonical strings and fixed pedantic warnings).
- Libxfce4panel does no longer depend on libxfcegui4. This might cause
some problems with plugins. Plugin developers should add libxfcegui4
to the dependencies of their package (including cflags and libadd in
the makefiles). |
What is it?
===========
'xfce4-panel' is the panel of the Xfce Desktop Environment. It is no longer
modeled after the CDE panel like the first versions of xfce.
This version is based on GTK+ and should have all the advantages that come
with this toolkit (see http://www.gtk.org).
The panel provides program lauchers with, optionally, non-hierarchical menus
(easier to read at a glance), and several panel 'plugins' like a clock and a
pager. Additional plugins may be installed separately.
Installation
============
The file 'INSTALL' contains generic installation instructions.
Plugins
=======
Starting from version 4.4, the Xfce Panel support two types of plugins:
* Internal plugins. These are loadable modules, using the gmodule interface.
* External plugins. These are separate programs that are embedded into the
panel using the GtkPlug/GtkSocket mechanism.
For more information about the panel plugins framework, you can read the API
documentation (http://www.xfce.org/documentation/4.4/api/libxfce4panel/) or
the panel plugins how to (http://wiki.xfce.org/panel_plugins_howto).
KIOSK mode
==========
The Xfce Panel supports the KIOSK mode introduced with libxfce4util 4.1.13.
It provides the following KIOSK capabilities:
CustomizePanel: Only users with this capability will be allowed to customize
their panel (add panel plugins, configure panel plugins, add launchers, etc.).
This is similar to setting the environment va- riable XFCE_DISABLE_USER_CONFIG
with the old panel.
So a sample xfce4-panel section in your kioskrc might look like this:
<-- start snip -->
[xfce4-panel]
CustomizePanel=%powerusers,foo
<-- end snip -->
This allows only users in the group powerusers and the user foo to customize
their panels.
How to report bugs?
===================
Bugs should be reported to the Xfce bug tracking system:
(http://bugzilla.xfce.org, product Xfce, component xfce4-panel).
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