Substantive patches can be approved by any two of the current

maintainers (see the MAINTAINERS file), obvious patches by any one of

them.

libwnck sits halfway between the panel (as an applet) and the window

manager.  libwnck can be used by other applications and thus isn't

technically limited to usage as an applet, but it is not stable and

thus other usage isn't recommended unless you want to update your app

often.  If you'd like to work on libwnck, some useful places to look

for more information are:

  gnome-applets/HACKING

    The HACKING file in gnome-applets contains links, tips, and

    information on writing panel applets, debugging them, and various

    best practices with them

  metacity/HACKING

    The HACKING file in metacity contains information on the ICCCM and

    EWMH which cover relevant X and freedesktop.org standards for

    communication between the window manager, specialized programs

    like the window list and workspace switcher applets, and clients.

  http://pobox.com/~hp/features.html

    devilspie is for crack.  Not libwnck.

  gnome-panel/applets/wncklet/

    The actual panel applets based on libwnck (the window list, window

    selector, workspace switcher and show desktop button) are found in

    this directory under gnome-panel, and all run as the process

    "wnck-applet".

  rationales.txt

    This file contains bugs that explains UI choices we've made (kind

    of empty at the moment, but we'll fill it in over time--it's

    similar to the file with the same name in the metacity module),

    and also has a bunch of tracker bugs which serve to help

    categorize bugs.