RE: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-25 Thread Giles Atkinson
interface. Thanks, Giles -Original Message- From: xdg-boun...@lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:xdg-boun...@lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Aaron J. Seigo Sent: 19 January 2010 18:44 To: xdg@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification On January 19, 2010

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-25 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On January 25, 2010, Giles Atkinson wrote: Aaaron, Another deferred follow-up, but on 19th January, you wrote: would it help if the entry for ApplicationStatus was extended from ... to something like: ... I think that would answer the category objection entirely. great; we'll include

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-25 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 25 January 2010, Giles Atkinson wrote: Aaaron, Another deferred follow-up, but on 19th January, you wrote: would it help if the entry for ApplicationStatus was extended from ... to something like: ... I think that would answer the category objection entirely. is there

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-25 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On January 25, 2010, Marco Martin wrote: I've done this suggested change together with other proposed changes in other messages and committed to gitorious. for those curious about where in gitorious: git clone git://gitorious.org/~notmart/xdg-specs/notmart-xdg-specs.git cd notmart-xdg-specs

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-21 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
Dan Winship wrote: On 01/20/2010 08:25 AM, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: Having applications control visualization means you can have N different behaviors, leading to inconsistency. This is what happens with the current x-embed protocol. It happens with StatusNotifier too; if you have a mix of

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-20 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
Matthias Clasen wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 10:44 -0800, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: the semantics of the operations as realized in a given visualization are not overly specified to purposefully allow for flexibility in the visualization. yes, there is an assumption here that those writing

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-20 Thread Dan Winship
On 01/20/2010 08:25 AM, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: Having applications control visualization means you can have N different behaviors, leading to inconsistency. This is what happens with the current x-embed protocol. It happens with StatusNotifier too; if you have a mix of KDE-based and

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-19 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On January 19, 2010, Giles Atkinson wrote: Do you have concrete examples? every app we looked at that puts an icon in the tray (and there are dozens) fits into one of the existing categories; in fact, that's how we came up with them. Yes, I do and it is not an isolated case, but an

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-19 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 10:44 -0800, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: the semantics of the operations as realized in a given visualization are not overly specified to purposefully allow for flexibility in the visualization. yes, there is an assumption here that those writing those visualizations

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-14 Thread Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
2009/12/17 Aurélien Gâteau aurelien.gat...@canonical.com: Hi, A few months ago, Marco Martin proposed a new specification to freedesktop.org [1] (at this time it was named NotificationItem, it has since then be renamed to StatusNotifier to avoid confusion with the existing Notification

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-14 Thread Marco Martin
On Thursday 14 January 2010, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: 2009/12/17 Aurélien Gâteau aurelien.gat...@canonical.com: Hi, A few months ago, Marco Martin proposed a new specification to freedesktop.org [1] (at this time it was named NotificationItem, it has since then be renamed to

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-14 Thread Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
2010/1/14 Marco Martin notm...@gmail.com: On Thursday 14 January 2010, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: 2009/12/17 Aurélien Gâteau aurelien.gat...@canonical.com: Hi, A few months ago, Marco Martin proposed a new specification to freedesktop.org [1] (at this time it was named

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-14 Thread Vincent Untz
Le jeudi 14 janvier 2010, à 13:02 +0100, Marco Martin a écrit : I am wondering if we need some event timestamps for the methods on org.freedesktop.StatusNotifierItem? Window managers that does focus stealing prevention will not allow apps to focus windows at whatever times suits them

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-14 Thread Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
2009/12/17 Aurélien Gâteau aurelien.gat...@canonical.com: Hi, A few months ago, Marco Martin proposed a new specification to freedesktop.org [1] (at this time it was named NotificationItem, it has since then be renamed to StatusNotifier to avoid confusion with the existing Notification

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-14 Thread Marco Martin
On Thursday 14 January 2010, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: 2009/12/17 Aurélien Gâteau aurelien.gat...@canonical.com: Hi, A few months ago, Marco Martin proposed a new specification to freedesktop.org [1] (at this time it was named NotificationItem, it has since then be renamed to

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-13 Thread Ted Gould
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 10:13 -0800, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On January 12, 2010, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: I remember one of the outcomes of the freedesktop.org discussion we had at Gran Canaria Desktop Summit was that a spec didn't have to be fully finalized to be allowed to use the

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-13 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On January 13, 2010, you wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 10:13 -0800, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On January 12, 2010, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: I remember one of the outcomes of the freedesktop.org discussion we had at Gran Canaria Desktop Summit was that a spec didn't have to be fully finalized

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-12 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
Aurélien Gâteau wrote: Having the specification accepted now would make it possible for both implementations to switch to the org.freedesktop DBus namespace now, thus simplifying code because there would be no need to register two names. (Trying to avoid letting this thread die) I remember

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-12 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On January 12, 2010, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: I remember one of the outcomes of the freedesktop.org discussion we had at Gran Canaria Desktop Summit was that a spec didn't have to be fully finalized to be allowed to use the org.freedesktop DBus namespace. personally, i think it needs to have at

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-06 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, Le jeudi 17 décembre 2009, à 18:07 +0100, Aurélien Gâteau a écrit : This specification is already implemented by KDE in kdelibs [2] and Canonical is working on an implementation for GNOME, libappindicator [3]. Reading [4], I had the feeling that this would now be implemented directly in

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-06 Thread Marco Martin
On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Vincent Untz wrote: Hi, Le jeudi 17 décembre 2009, à 18:07 +0100, Aurélien Gâteau a écrit : This specification is already implemented by KDE in kdelibs [2] and Canonical is working on an implementation for GNOME, libappindicator [3]. Reading [4], I had the

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-06 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 06 janvier 2010, à 16:03 +0100, Marco Martin a écrit : On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Vincent Untz wrote: I find org.freedesktop.StatusNotifierItem a bit, hrm, weird, though. Why not org.freedesktop.StatusItem or org.freedesktop.NotificationItem. well, it acttally changed name

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-06 Thread Ted Gould
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 15:18 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Le jeudi 17 décembre 2009, à 18:07 +0100, Aurélien Gâteau a écrit : This specification is already implemented by KDE in kdelibs [2] and Canonical is working on an implementation for GNOME, libappindicator [3]. Reading [4], I had the

AurélienRE: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-06 Thread Giles Atkinson
...@lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Aurélien Gâteau Sent: 06 January 2010 10:29 To: xdg@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification Hi, It has been over two weeks now and nobody commented on the spec. Can I deduce from this that everyone is fine with us switching

Re: AurélienRE: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-06 Thread Marco Martin
On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Giles Atkinson wrote: Aurélien, Your message below prompted me to read the specification, something that has been on my to do list since the original post. I do have a few comments. 1) This represents a huge increase in complexity and in dependencies for

RE: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-06 Thread Giles Atkinson
the StatusNotifier specification On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Giles Atkinson wrote: Aurélien, Your message below prompted me to read the specification, something that has been on my to do list since the original post. I do have a few comments. 1) This represents a huge increase

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-06 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On January 6, 2010, Vincent Untz wrote: StatusItem would be probably ok-ish too, but not significantly better than StatusNotifierItem a Status notifier item is a thing that notifies about the status of an application, so even if not totally pretty is a name that seems to make perfect

Re: Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

2010-01-06 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On January 6, 2010, Giles Atkinson wrote: Thank you for your comments on those of mine. I agree that most of your remarks on item 1 make sense, but can not agree with ... Xembed seems pretty slow ..., as in this case it comes down to little more than reparenting a window. it's not the