Hi Britt, Just commenting on the parts I have answers to...
Britt Yazel <bwya...@gnome.org> wrote: ... > 2) Back in early GNOME3 we had the slide up tray from the bottom. Am I the > only one who thought that was super cool? It had nice big icons for touch and > accessibility purposes, and it was just really cool looking imo. I was sad > when that went away for usability reasons. Is there any chance on > resurrecting that and polishing it's usability issues as a solution? I thought the tray was cool too! Unfortunately, we could never get it behave reliably for everyone (and we really did try). I think this was mostly a combination of variable hardware and the ergonomics of exerting pressure on the bottom screen-edge. We also had ongoing issues with the position of the notifications at the bottom of the screen: people didn't notice them. > 3) realistically what are the chances of us working with the other interested > parties and creating a functional/unified spec once and for all. We could do > the whole Mantle-->Vulkan transition with appindicator-->XDG-appicon or > something of the sort. My dream is to create a solution for everyone, not > just GNOME The challenge with doing anything new is adoption. One of the main issues we face with status icons today is the long tail - all those old apps that don't follow upstream all that closely (if at all). Getting all of those on a new protocol is unlikely to happen. A more general comment: back when we last made changes to status icons, we had a two-part strategy: 1. Push libcloudproviders as the way for apps like Dropbox to integrate 2. Make sure there was a well-publicised, well-functioning extension for when people do need status icons Unfortunately it seems like 1 hasn't really happened, and poking around this morning I couldn't find a single functioning extension for status icons. So there's that. :( Allan _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
