Em Sáb, 2006-04-22 às 18:44 -0700, Michael Frank escreveu: > On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 09:05 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > > Le samedi 22 avril 2006 à 01:06 -0400, David Zeuthen a écrit : > > > Can I suggest to start a new thread here on d-d-l about the applet > > > infrastructure [1] > > > > FWIW, this is a proposed SoC project. I have lots of ideas (and other > > people also have) that I really should write down somewhere. > > > > Feel free to start a new thread here or send me mails about this. Right > > now, the main issue is to try to do it in a cross-desktop way so we can > > remove a good excuse for abusing the notification area :-) > > what i would like is to have a notification area *and* a 'systray' (for > lack of a better name at the moment), since i find both to be useful. > > perhaps what is now the notification area applet could become the > systray applet, so ppl who don't like the whole systray idea could > remove it. next the notification area could be merged into the window > list applet by creating a space for it (roughly the size of the show > desktop button) for it at the right end of the window list. when there > is a notification, this area lights up/flashes, maybe shows a > notification balloon, etc. there would be a need for some sort of > notification queuing, but that eliminates expanding and contracting the > notification area. > > i would like a systray similar to newer versions of windows, i.e. with > some provision for collapsing the systray area by hiding some of the > icons according to a user defined policy. > > other thoughts, comments? > > -Michael >
I don't see how hiding some icons would be useful, since the default panel layout is not crowded like the 1-panel layout on Windows. I'm a bigger fan of the NeXT/GNUstep dock myself (I was a WindowMaker user for some time). For example, GNOME could have an applet for launchers, like quick-lounge-applet, that would also have icons for the hidden running applications. For example, two applications that are useful to hide are IM and the music player. When I want to bring up the music-player I have to look for it in: 1) the tasklist; 2) the notifications area / systray; 3) and finally, the launcher. In GNUstep you would just double click the music-player icon, which you'll always find in the same place in the dock. I think the systray/notification area is useful for things the user doesn't really care about. For example, nobody buys a laptop to monitor the battery status or other hardware related functions. They do it to run applications (like IM and music-player), and so I think it's a good idea to keep these things separated. The "quick-lounge"-like applet I mentioned could be useful for other things. For example, instead of launching Evolution to check for new mail the icon launcher would always display if I have new messages or not. This would save people a lot of time. Unfortunately I don't think this is exactly easy to implement. :( Cheers, Evandro _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
