Bruce: My reasoning is this, the "Message Indicator" (being polite) is a "tweak" that changes the user interface in a way that breaks standard GNOME behavior.
This may be OK if Ubuntu wants to maintain out of tree patches for everything in their repository that wants to use the notification area, this is a lot of packages, but then again, it's their time+effort. It also means that if I go grab software from some place else or build something myself, I have to either put up with bugs (user) or release a standard version for normal GNOME and anything that's not Ubuntu, and one for Ubuntu specifically so that it obeys this "wonderful gadget" (being extremely polite). Now for Sebastien: It's not right to tell a user to go add more fluff to make the software behave appropriately, it's also extraneous. Let's take the example of web standards, we all know where Internet Explorer has been, Microsoft was so worried about tacking on whatever widgets they could and wanted non standard behavior, now they have no less than 4 rendering engines behavior sets in IE8, this standard GNOME desktop plugin you mention immediately makes me thing of that. Now I have no idea, nor do I really care if you guys have focus groups, or "where you get this" (again being extremely courteous), but to me, as a user of GNOME, and a power user of Linux, I can't help but to be corralled here just a little, this behavior is about the grossest thing I've seen done to GNOME since the Suse "Choose Your Own Adventure" menu, and that really is just how I feel about it. Sorry if you can't take a little pinch of criticism. -- Closing or removing indicator-applet does not restore correct GNOME behavior https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346159 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Indicator Applet Developers, which is the registrant for Indicator Applet. Status in Indicator Applet: New Status in “indicator-applet” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: If I remove indicator-applet from the panel or uninstall it entirely, programs that are supposed to have an icon in the system tray simply close. I find the behavior of the applet clunky and incorrect, and think that really there should be a setting somewhere that lets you disable it. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
