On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Rodrigo Moya <rodr...@gnome-db.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 10:55 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Rodrigo Moya <rodr...@gnome-db.org> wrote: >> > yeah, I agree with you, I think both should be the same (an applet or an >> > icon), so since we already have the applet, I guess it would make sense >> > to add code to the applet to hide itself and start the notification icon >> > if PA is running, or something like that >> But this is not a runtime decision. Either your distro is using >> pulseaudio (and it should), then you always want the new icon, >> or it isn't, and then you need something else. If you are using >> pulseaudio, you don't want to have an invisible mixer applet on your >> panel, eating resources and possibly causing other unwanted side >> effects. > you're right about the resources taken by the hidden applet, but as you > see, Debian, openSUSE and Mandriva need ways to offer users a fallback, > so we really need it. If there's a better solution than hiding the > applet, let's use that, but can't think of a better (and quicker) way > right now
Wouldn't it be easier to convert the old applet to also use a tray icon? This way no useless applet needs to stay in the memory (due to the fact applets have no programmatical way to add or remove themselves at run time). -- Patryk Zawadzki _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list