> 1) applets (as currently implemented with the panel) need to be explicitly placed on the panel, whereas notification area icons just appear in any old order in a pleasantly helpful sort of way
There's probably a better way to do all of this, but it would require much more fundamental overhauls, like getting rid of the taskbar and notification area altogether and using some of the features of AWN or an OS X dock (but they have little icons at the top-right of the screen next to the clock, too, don't they?) And if we stop trying to fix current problems because of the possibility of those fixes being irrelevant in a very distant, very different future, stuff will stay broken for a long time. > 2) it is very tied in to the use of gnome-panel; if a program wanted to work just as well with KDE, or even with GNOME for someone who ran AWN instead of gnome-panel, they would have to reimplement the applet part all over again each time. Notification area applets work everywhere. Right. If Pidgin's persistent state is changed to be implemented as an applet, does it use the same applet icon to notify you of new messages, or does it pop up a second icon in the notification area? -- Shrinking to notification area should have its own title bar button https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124326 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
