2009/4/19 Emmanuele Bassi <eba...@gmail.com>: > On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 23:26 +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote: > >> Fortunately Ubuntu is yet experimenting on alternate, ephimeral >> notifications ;) > > that has nothing to do with applets, gadgets/widgets/desktlets/whatever > and resident application.
I've a different point of view. If we want to redesign the GNOME "shell", if we want to keep applets/gadgets/widgets/desktlets/whatever (or if we have to keep for users' sake[0]), we have to draw a line between *notifications* and *gadgets*. We have to choose if is better to maintain something abused as current notification area or, instead, to switch to a "status area"[1] supported by a different notification system. We were yet talking about a different approach to notifications[2], the Ubuntu experiment could be an interesting playground to investigate where and how we can move shell components. [0] and for vendors' sake too. A recent example: Dell is adding a stupid applet on Mini 9, a simple "help" icon to pop-up a menu, each menu entry pointing to a different section of Ubuntu guide (Internet, Music, Updates, Printers..). For me this is the most unuseful applet, but I started to use GNOME in 1.x times; instead it could be really useful for a new user as well as for Dell support (less request "how can I do .. ?"). GNOME is not a final product, it's a platform for vendors [1] Currently, on my screen, in notification area there are battery _status_ indicator, network _status_ indicator and bluetooth icon... not so much notifications ;) [2] http://live.gnome.org/AlternativeNotificationsUI _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
