On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 14:27 +0000, Yannick Defais wrote: > As far as I know, the Ubuntu philosophy about the indicator-applet is to > forbid any action. Thus you'll be notified about an incoming call, but > you wont be able to accept or refuse it.
The popup only shows you a notification and indeed does not allow any action. but the indicator-applet is a separate panel applet which is clickable and opens the recent message, allowing you to reply. However, refusing a call would indeed be a problem that needs further tought. > Beside that, if there is no icon, how could you possibly show the main > window to the user to allow him to place a call? The indicator applet has a dropdown menu listing relevant applications (currently Pidgin and Evolution) and allows you to open the main window just like the persistent notification area icon does if enabled. In effect, the applet's purpose is to consolidate all these persistent icons into one. > Finally, the Gnome HIG allow persistant icon: > http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/desktop-notification-area.html.en > "Only core GNOME programs may perpetually display an icon in the status area." It does allow this, although it's debatable if Ekiga is "core gnome", the concept of core is not clear to me here. What the HIG says clearly is that the persistent icon should be optional, altough the "core" concept appears there again. Still, making the icon optional has not been a problem for Pidgin and Gajim, which have UIs very similar to Ekiga. -- Juha Siltala -- Add option to hide persistent notification icon and add support for the indicator-applet https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353002 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
