Ross Burton wrote: > On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 14:18 -0400, Kris Warkentin wrote: >> That being said however, the reality is that a lot of third party >> apps depend on a generic tray/dock/notification area of some sort. >> I know that moblin is trying to provide a clean UI and consistent >> user experience but not having a tray is pretty hostile to >> non-moblin apps. >> >> Some people might prefer Pidgin for all its warts. You don't >> provide a "moblinized" Skype yet. I'm sure there are plenty of >> other examples. > > Applications which *depend* on a status/notification/whatever you want > to call it area are buggy, plain and simple. AFAIK you can remove the > notification area in all major free desktops so if you find an > application which tries to "minimize to the status area" when the > status area doesn't exist, file a bug report. > > Ross
I'm getting the sense it would be really nice if there were a set of design guidelines in this area. Does it make sense to kick something off at freedesktop.org? _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
