Re: Removal of notification area

2010-06-11 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 V for Vortex wrote on 10/06/10 15:55: >... > Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: >> >> Once it is removed, it will not be possible to re-add the notification >> area applet (or any other applet) to the Unity panel. > > Will it be possible to replace the Unity

Re: Removal of notification area

2010-06-11 Thread V for Vortex
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:40:45 -0700 Dylan McCall wrote: > > To be serious, I don't like this kind of forcing one's own view of > > usability onto the users. GNU/Linux is all about free customization. > > Give the user your preferred applications, but let him choose what > > he/she wants to use. >

Re: Removal of notification area

2010-06-10 Thread Anzan Hoshin Roshi
On 10 June 2010 11:40, Dylan McCall wrote: > > To be serious, I don't like this kind of forcing one's own view of > > usability onto the users. GNU/Linux is all about free customization. > > Give the user your preferred applications, but let him choose what > > he/she wants to use. > > GNU/Linux

Re: Removal of notification area

2010-06-10 Thread Dylan McCall
> To be serious, I don't like this kind of forcing one's own view of > usability onto the users. GNU/Linux is all about free customization. > Give the user your preferred applications, but let him choose what > he/she wants to use. GNU/Linux is absolutely not “about” anything, especially not free

Re: Removal of notification area

2010-06-10 Thread V for Vortex
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:43:45 +0100 Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > Once it is removed, it will not be possible to re-add the notification > area applet (or any other applet) to the Unity panel. Will it be possible to replace the Unity panel then? ]:} To be serious, I don't like this kind of forcin

Re: Removal of notification area

2010-06-10 Thread Anzan Hoshin Roshi
On 10 June 2010 06:43, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > - > >... > > Also, I can see how the notification area applet will probably never > > die, but the users who still want it will have to install it on top of > > the default installation to handle all the apps which haven't moved > > over to alig

Re: Removal of notification area

2010-06-10 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Davyd McColl wrote on 23/04/10 15:02: >... > 1) Already we have the case of apps which don't "play nicely" with the > user notification applet such as Pidgin and Skype (both probably out of > portability concerns). Now, personally, I don't want to use

Re: Removal of notification area

2010-04-24 Thread Aurélien Naldi
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Alvin Thompson wrote: > On 04/23/2010 02:55 AM, Chandru wrote: >> If notification area is going to be removed as mentioned in this post, >> http://design.canonical.com/2010/04/notification-area/, how will >> applications which do not target Ubuntu alone and are not

Re: Removal of notification area

2010-04-24 Thread Alvin Thompson
On 04/23/2010 02:55 AM, Chandru wrote: > If notification area is going to be removed as mentioned in this post, > http://design.canonical.com/2010/04/notification-area/, how will > applications which do not target Ubuntu alone and are not maintained by > Ubuntu developers work? I've had this quest

Re: Removal of notification area

2010-04-23 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 23 April 2010 16:05, Aurélien Naldi wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Davyd McColl wrote: >> For what it's worth, I'd like to put in 2 (perhaps long-winded) cents here. >> >> The short story and suggestions: >> I think that culling the Notification Area could be problematic > > I also

Re: Removal of notification area

2010-04-23 Thread Aurélien Naldi
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Davyd McColl wrote: > For what it's worth, I'd like to put in 2 (perhaps long-winded) cents here. > > The short story and suggestions: > I think that culling the Notification Area could be problematic I also think that it may be a bit early to remove it completely

Re: Removal of notification area

2010-04-23 Thread Davyd McColl
For what it's worth, I'd like to put in 2 (perhaps long-winded) cents here. The short story and suggestions: I think that culling the Notification Area could be problematic (more below, if you have time and patience to read). I would suggest: 1) Keep the Notification Area applet alive -- try to po

Re: Removal of notification area

2010-04-23 Thread Luke L
I'm kind of surprised no API forwarding legacy notification area icons to the 'application indicator' is being discussed. I guess that would defeat the purpose of the app indicator. I hope Ubuntu gets the appindicator code into GNOME asap. On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:33 AM, Joao Pinto wrote: > > >

Re: Removal of notification area

2010-04-23 Thread Joao Pinto
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Chandru wrote: > If notification area is going to be removed as mentioned in this post, > http://design.canonical.com/2010/04/notification-area/, how will > applications which do not target Ubuntu alone and are not maintained by > Ubuntu developers work? > > For e

Removal of notification area

2010-04-22 Thread Chandru
If notification area is going to be removed as mentioned in this post, http://design.canonical.com/2010/04/notification-area/, how will applications which do not target Ubuntu alone and are not maintained by Ubuntu developers work? For example, Skype currently places its icon on the notification a