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 (0.6)
• 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 (>= 2.50.0)
• GTK3 (>= 3.22.0)
• 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

• ria.freelander@gmail.com

Special thanks

• Ikey Doherty for sidebar widget and inspirations.
• LXPanel team for creating a base for my fork. Vala Panel uses LXPanel's tray code and other inspirations (including generic-config-dialog.vala and most positioning code in toplevel.vala).

Inspirations

• Budgie Desktop
• LXPanel