On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:55 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote: > On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 17:20 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Hi there. My first post to this list; Reinout van Schouwen suggested it > > as the best place for this idea. > > > > Most GNOME media player applications stick an icon in the notification > > area. Rhythmbox, Muine, etc - they all have their own code to stick an > > icon in there for controlling the player. This is unnecessary > > duplication of effort. It's also bad interface design; the notification > > area is meant for notification, not app interaction, and usually these > > icons cannot be turned off. I had an idea to fix all these problems. > > Why would you be running more than one of these at a time? Also, the > notification area really doesn't have any mandates (which is one of the > problems with it).
As a related question, what is the currently policy for multimedia keys when you have multiple such apps running? I am not sure how excited I am about the general idea, but I assume such an applet would simply be a virtual multimedia keys keyboard. Christian _______________________________________________ gnome-multimedia mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-multimedia
