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