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://gitlab.com/vala-panel-project/vala-panel-appmenu)
• Write a window buttons applet (0.3)
• Going to C again (0.4.X)
• Write Notification Center Applet (0.6)
• Wayland support, make compositor and complete Wayland support(1.0)
• Taskbar DBus library for compositor (1.0)
• Be prepared for GTK4
• Redo ValaPanelIconGrid using GtkFlowBox and such wonders. (not needed since I am already using FlowBox everywhere)

TODO for next version

• Remove XEmbed - it is not useful for Wayland
• Write tasklist and some management applets for Wayland (wlroots)
• Implement Layer Shell Wayland backend

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 (>= 2.56.0)
• GTK3 (>= 3.22.0)

Plugins:

• libwnck (>= 3.4.7)
• libX11
• valac

Lastly, always set -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREXIX=/usr when using cmake. Otherwise you won't be able to start the panel on most distros.

Author

• Athor ria.freelander@gmail.com

Special thanks

• Ikey Doherty for icontasklist.
• XFCE Team for XFCE Tasklist.
• LXPanel team for creating a base for my fork. Vala Panel uses LXPanel's tray code and other inspirations (generic-config-dialog for applets and lxpanel-like remote command system).

Inspirations

• Budgie Desktop
• LXPanel