On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 21:56, Ted Gould <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 16:53 -0700, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 16:24, Ted Gould <[email protected]> wrote: > > Shell does have a way to embed things in its panel, it is > > using the > > current notification area spec. That's how they get things > > like > > gnome-power and network-manager into their panel. Honestly, > > they're > > going to have to move on from that for lots of reasons. > > > > Is there anything in the current indicator-applet, or for that matter > > me-applet and indicator-session-applet, that couldn't be done this > > way, via the notification spec? > > Yes, the notification area only allows for windows to exist, pretty much > in vacuum. So there is no way for them to communicate amongst each > other to create something like a menu bar. There are other issues with > the notification area spec, but that's one of the key ones. >
Other notification-area applets seem to do the same thing, ie, a menu with contents that vary based on conditions. To be clear, I'm not suggesting that individual libindicate applications create notification icons. I'm suggesting that the indicator applet itself should be a notification icon. -- Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: [email protected] =-
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