On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 11:45 -0500, Seth Howard wrote: > I am not an expert in the area of Applets, but making it strictly a > Gnome applet would restrict its usage to Gnome. So if I wanted to run > it under xfce4 or some other Window Manager, the applet would need > re-written for each window-manager implementation. The notification > (icon box) area is a standard that is usable regardless of WM (or it > should be). Even though it is technically a gnome application, making > it as portable as possible is a good thing.
That was one of the exact reasons it was made a notification area in the first place, before there was eg knetworkmanager. Dan > Hope that answers your question. > > -Seth > > On 3/6/07, Bash0rman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's called NetworkManager Applet so why is it not implemented > as Gnome > Applet? > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > NetworkManager-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > NetworkManager-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list