On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 7:20 AM Florian Müllner <fmuell...@gnome.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 1:19 PM 0x90 <0...@phocean.net> wrote: > >> Le 28/09/2016 à 08:03, Sriram Ramkrishna a écrit : >> > >> > Jean-Christophe Baptiste : to answer your question in regards to the >> tray design, last time I heard about it, the design is not complete. I >> don't think anybody is quite happy with what we have right now. Allan or >> Lapo can probably expand on that. It is my assumption that we aren't done >> yet. > > > Sorry, but that isn't really correct - it's true that nobody is truly > happy with what we have, but that doesn't mean that the design is > incomplete or somehow in flux. There are two constraints - one of design > and one technical - that severely limit the available options: > Thanks for the correction! Yes, I was trying to recall a conversation about some time back, so glad that you were able to step in and provide some concrete background on the design pattern. > > TL;DR: > Running applications in the background is a valid use, and we'd like to > improve on what we have. We don't think legacy status icons are a good > pattern and discourage their use. > > Yeah, I think this is what I was remembering, not specifically legacy status icons which as you correctly said has a number of flaws. Strangely, I don't really miss the tray icons.. So, victory? sri > Cheers, > Florian > > > [0] https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Whiteboards/BackgroundApps > [1] > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s10.html > [2] https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GNotification.html > [3] https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GApplication.html > >
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