Please, no. The notification area is intended for notifications. It's
bad enough that network-manager places an icon indefinitely and that
some apps nest in it by default. Let's NOT put another ever-present icon
there, please. ...
I agree that it isn't a good idea to flood the notification area with
icons. At the same time, there is a need for Elisa to feed back what it
is doing when it isn't visible. We also need something in the GUI to
enable switching into and out of Elisa while it is running. The
notification area solution maybe isn't ideal, but I for one can't think
of an alternative (does anyone know of one?). Also, you've got to ask -
isn't this what the notification area is for?
It could be that we are running up against a more general disadvantage
of the standard GNOME desktop here - namely, that the task
list/notification area solution isn't ideal when you have lots of
applications running in the background (which seems to increasingly be
the case). I'm no great lover of docks, but they do offer advantages in
this regard.
Allan
