Hi, On the subject of the Ubuntu application indicators work:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationIndicators First, +5000 that this change is being driven by designers, and +1000 that new useful code is being written. There are definite problems being solved here. Now, both of those said, I have two issues I'd like to bring up. * In the big picture, is this something we're recommending all applications to use? Some? Only ones which send notifications? * It'd be really nice to get some discussion of how this fits in with the design plans for GNOME Shell (note that in GNOME 2 if applications use this, you have potentially *3* representations of an application in the top panel, this is something we can obviously improve in GNOME 3). * On a technical level, this really makes more sense in GTK+. There are a lot of advantages to this; we've been working hard to push all useful application functionality lower in the stack rather than being a collection of random libraries, and this is a reversal there. If it were in GTK+, then we have to consider x-platform issues like does this map at all to Windows 7 jump lists, etc., but it seems way easier to me to just patch GTK+ (even if it's #ifdef X11) than to patch apps for all the configure goo, write custom bindings etc. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
