AFAIK, this is a major deviation from what upstream and other distributions are doing, even larger than that of notify-osd.
Is there any sign of uptake of the indicator suite of protocols upstream or in any other distributions? Why or why not? Gnome-shell certainly seems to be going a different direction, and the repurcussions of that have seen scarce discussion here.. If upstream and/or other distributions aren't on board with this, what's the route for backwards-compatability, and interoperation with other projects? Any sign of the indicator suite of protocols seeing uptake at somewhere vendor-neutral, like freedesktop.org? I for one feel like this sort of decision is Canonical getting quite a bit further ahead of itself, when there's a lot of unanswered questions about tying this to the greater FOSS operating system community. On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 14:44, Matthew Paul Thomas <m...@canonical.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi folks > > On the new Canonical Design site, we've just posted an overview of our > plan to retire the notification area (a.k.a. "system tray") from Ubuntu > by 11.04. <http://design.canonical.com/2010/04/notification-area/> > > Mark S. has posted an architectural overview on his site too. > <http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/347> > > Your feedback is welcome on this mailing list (or, if you prefer, on > either of those Web pages). Does the plan make sense? Or are we > completely off our rocker? Is there anything we've missed? Do you have > suggestions on how we can make the transition smoother? > > Thanks > - -- > Matthew Paul Thomas > http://mpt.net.nz/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkvPY54ACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecq3sACdGAU4JvHlUtSaG/cmojKthtHw > HlUAnjQ/1RMW7pN+WU9AAikQH2yligi3 > =+RNZ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: jer...@nickurak.ca =- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp