On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <m...@canonical.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote on 02/03/09 10:59: >> >> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Vincent Untz <vu...@gnome.org> wrote: >>... >>> http://specifications.freedesktop.org/systemtray-spec/systemtray-spec-latest.html >> >> Out of curiosity, since we have libnotify and now the ubuntu >> extension, is the message stuff still required/useful? >>... > > The Ubuntu notification module (Notify OSD) does not extend libnotify in > any way relevant to the system tray. > > libnotify lets an application request a bubble pointing at a particular > widget -- such as a panel icon -- and translates that into the Desktop > Notification Specification's "x" and "y" coordinate hints. But because > of this translation, if the panel or other items inside it appear or > disappear while the bubble is open, the bubble unavoidably ends up > pointing at the wrong thing. And if two bubbles point at panel icons at > the same time, they often end up overlapping each other. Notify OSD > avoids this problem, as allowed by the spec, by ignoring the "x" and "y" > hints. > > If pointing notifications at panel icons was a good idea at all, > specifying it in the system tray spec might be a more robust method, > because the panel could keep track of whether an icon had moved and move > its balloon accordingly. > > However, Canonical's POV is that pointing a message at (or otherwise > associating it with) a tiny icon in a panel is not a polite way of > notifying people of things, regardless of what spec it's using.
Sorry by messing up on my phrasing, I know about OSD and libnotify, I was just trying o know if there are plans to deprecate systray messaging in favor of these new systems. I know if they are deprecated it will take some time to vanish and may be good to support, but as time is short this may be a good excuse ;-) Regards, -- Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri http://profusion.mobi embedded systems -------------------------------------- MSN: barbi...@gmail.com Skype: gsbarbieri Mobile: +55 (19) 9225-2202 _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg