DeforaOS Panel ============== About Panel ----------- This program is meant to display an arbitrary number of desktop panels, with support for one per edge of the screen at the moment. Each panel can then host a number of applets, implemented as plug-ins to the main program. A number of additional utilities is also available, allowing tighter integration of external applications, as well as when responding to system events (notifications...). Documentation ------------- Each of these tools, as well as Panel itself, are documented in a series of manual pages. They are also available in the HTML format. Compiling Panel --------------- The current requirements for compiling Panel are as follows: * Gtk+ 2.4 or later, or Gtk+ 3.0 or later * DeforaOS libDesktop * DeforaOS Browser * an implementation of `make` * gettext (libintl) for translations * docbook-xsl for the documentation (optional) With these installed, the following command should be enough to compile Panel on most systems: $ make On some systems, the Makefiles shipped can be re-generated accordingly thanks to the DeforaOS configure tool. The compilation process supports a number of options, such as PREFIX and DESTDIR for packaging and portability, or OBJDIR for compilation outside of the source tree. Extending Panel --------------- Applets for the Panel program can be written according to the API definitions installed and found in (here in `include/Panel.h`). A sample applet can be found in `src/applets/template.c`. Further applets can also be found in the DeforaOS Integration project. Distributing Panel ------------------ DeforaOS Panel is subject to the terms of the GPL license, version 3. Please see the `COPYING` file for more information.