Re: Re: External Dependency Proposal: libappindicator

2010-05-07 Thread Ted Gould
Not to criticize your decision, but just to correct a couple of factual details in your e-mail: On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 12:20 -0400, Dan Winship wrote: As for the trayicons in the message tray, it is possible that tray-side-menu-rendering, as in libappindicator, would be useful for our design

Re: Re: External Dependency Proposal: libappindicator

2010-05-06 Thread Dan Winship
belatedly... On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:42:02, Olav Vitters wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 09:42:58PM -0600, Ted Gould wrote: Q: Does this fit the the design goals for GNOME Shell? A: I can't speak for the designers of GNOME Shell but they've talked about how the top panel should behave like a

Re: External Dependency Proposal: libappindicator

2010-03-03 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 15:32 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: In gnome-bluetooth, I'd like to have bold menu items to represent connected devices. I would also like to have some control over whether device names will be ellipsised (or how). Both of which are currently not possible with

Re: External Dependency Proposal: libappindicator

2010-02-26 Thread Matthias Clasen
One thing I forgot to point out initially is that there has been some discussion of the StatusNotifier 'spec' that is used here, on xdg-list: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2010-January/011228.html ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Re: External Dependency Proposal: libappindicator

2010-02-24 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 00:25 +, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 11:18 +1100, Danielle Madeley wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 22:54 -0600, Ted Gould wrote: It would be much cleaner to either expose the underlying dbus api or proxy something that is explicitly designed

Re: External Dependency Proposal: libappindicator

2010-02-21 Thread Danielle Madeley
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 22:54 -0600, Ted Gould wrote: It would be much cleaner to either expose the underlying dbus api or proxy something that is explicitly designed with this in mind: GtkActions. That's a great idea. What do you think would be a good API/name for a function that did

Re: External Dependency Proposal: libappindicator

2010-02-21 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 11:18 +1100, Danielle Madeley wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 22:54 -0600, Ted Gould wrote: It would be much cleaner to either expose the underlying dbus api or proxy something that is explicitly designed with this in mind: GtkActions. That's a great idea. What

Re: External Dependency Proposal: libappindicator

2010-02-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 09:42:58PM -0600, Ted Gould wrote: Q: Does this fit the the design goals for GNOME Shell? A: I can't speak for the designers of GNOME Shell but they've talked about how the top panel should behave like a menu bar in many ways. This would definitely support that.

Re: External Dependency Proposal: libappindicator

2010-02-19 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; I would like to propose libappindicator as an external dependency. libappindicator is a simple library that provides a way for an application to put a menu inside an application specific area, most typically on a panel. It also provides a fallback to generic KDE Status Notifier Item and

Re: External Dependency Proposal: libappindicator

2010-02-19 Thread Vincent Untz
Le vendredi 19 février 2010, à 14:16 +0100, Christian Persch a écrit : Hi; I would like to propose libappindicator as an external dependency. libappindicator is a simple library that provides a way for an application to put a menu inside an application specific area, most typically on a

Re: External Dependency Proposal: libappindicator

2010-02-19 Thread Christian Persch
Hi; Am Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:18:10 -0600 schrieb Cody Russell brats...@gnome.org: On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:16 +0100, Christian Persch wrote: Also, why is this LGPL 23-only instead of the usual LGPL 2.1-or-later? Because seriously, everything should be this way. None of us should be saying

Re: External Dependency Proposal: libappindicator

2010-02-19 Thread Ted Gould
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 10:42 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 09:42:58PM -0600, Ted Gould wrote: Q: Does this fit the the design goals for GNOME Shell? A: I can't speak for the designers of GNOME Shell but they've talked about how the top panel should behave like a menu

Re: External Dependency Proposal: libappindicator

2010-02-19 Thread Ted Gould
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 11:00 +0100, Frederic Peters wrote: I would like to propose libappindicator as an external dependency. libappindicator is a simple library that provides a way for an application to put a menu inside an application specific area, most typically on a panel. It also

Re: External Dependency Proposal: libappindicator

2010-02-19 Thread Ted Gould
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:16 +0100, Christian Persch wrote: I would like to propose libappindicator as an external dependency. libappindicator is a simple library that provides a way for an application to put a menu inside an application specific area, most typically on a panel. It also

Re: External Dependency Proposal: libappindicator

2010-02-19 Thread Cody Russell
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 16:34 +0100, Christian Persch wrote: Really? The FSF *recommends* that you add the or later clause; see e.g. [1]. And if you are concerned about what the later [L]GPL version will say, you should at least keep open the possibility to use it, by designating a trusted

Re: External Dependency Proposal: libappindicator

2010-02-19 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Ted Gould Q: Shouldn't this be in GTK+? A: Apparently not. Huh ? Not a very helpful answer. If you are proposing an API that directly conflicts with something that is already provided in GTK+, you should really have a better one... Looking at the api docs

Re: External Dependency Proposal: libappindicator

2010-02-19 Thread Ted Gould
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 23:20 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: If you are proposing an API that directly conflicts with something that is already provided in GTK+, you should really have a better one... I guess I don't feel like it's a conflict. I feel like it's an extension similar to how other