It seems to me that there are few warring ideas here about the system tray/notification area/status notification area usage.
1) anything goes 2) programs information/icons only 3) system information/icons only Simply put, programs have dominated this area on Gnome and every other desktop environment for eons. The only solution I can think that would solve this conundrum is to have two separate "notification area" applets. I dont like seeing icons I dont care about when I look at the notification area to mess with application but I do still want to be able to see this information with ease. Two areas would solve this by letting me put the system info applet with battery status/audio volume/bluetooth status/wifi availability/etc in the upper left (like my cell phone) while still being able to have my iconified applications together like I want them. In short, rename the current area to something like "Program Status Area" and make a new one like "System Status Area". Doing this would require changing some existing system apps for Gnome but would prevent having to trying to force an onslaught of developers to change how they do things which would likely cause an even larger schism between Gnome/KDE/etc desktop fans/developers when a GTK app will not longer show it's icon in the "notification area" in KDE/etc. On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 18:45 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote: > Yes I think we first need to acknowledge that this area is not a > notification area today. Then for 3.0 we should make sure we figure > out how better to present notifications to the user and improve our > existing status area. It will be interesting to see how the Ubuntu > experiments here work out... or if they'll be useful to adopt upstream > at all. > > Jon -- Gravis <desktop-de...@adaptivetime.com> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list