Bug#608230: ITP: xmonad-log-applet -- GNOME panel applet that displays xmonad log messages using D-Bus

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 28 décembre 2010 à 21:20 -0200, Rafael Cunha de Almeida a
écrit :
>  Xmonad is able to print status messages using D-Bus interface. This
>  GNOME panel applet is able to display that information to the user. It
>  is capable of displaying information such as window title and current
>  workspace number.
> 
> I think it could be the case of this going to gnome-applets. The reason
> I think it probably shouldn't go there is that this is a very specific
> applet, for people who use gnome together with xmonad, instead of
> metacity. So having it in gnome-applets would probably be confusing to
> users not familiar with this sort of things.

I don’t understand the reason for making this xmonad-specific. Why not
improve the wnck applet so that it is able to just display the title of
the currently active window, instead?

Cheers,
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