Actually, that is incorrect.
I have tried Pidgin and sent myself messages from another computer/IM
account... and the message tray does not act the same way as it does
when your using empathy. With empathy, you are able to recieve msgs and
reply to messages straight from the message tray at the bottom instead of
opening up your messenger window....
With pidgin, you get the msg at the bottom, but you cannot click on it and
reply etc...... and as for other Music players, it is the same thing... you
cannot interact with the message tray to be able to
control the application... such as skipping songs etc..... but you can do
this if you are using rhythmbox.
In my opinion, Gnome should of picked better applications to be intergrated
into gnome-shell... Empathy is not good enough.... rhythmbox is ok, but it
would be nice if banshee was supported in gnome-shell....
and arghhh, don't get me started about the crippled Shotwell photo
application.... although shotwell is not relevent in this current
discussion.....
Can anybody confirm support for "other ' alternate well known
messengers/music players for intergration in gnome-shell????
cheers
On , Ryan Peters <[email protected]> wrote:
On 06/15/2010 07:15 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Just a query I have about the future of gnome.....
I have noticed that certain applications are married together with
gnome-shell, such as empathy and rhythmbox..... hence...
the messaging tray works together with them.
The only problem is that Empathy and Rhythmbox are poor choices of
applications for several reasons... especially empathy...
It seems as though if people want the full use of gnome-shell they are
pretty much forced to use empathy, which hasn't even got file transfer
support for
most popular messenging protocols, or offline messaging... people have
been complaining about its lack of features for atleast the Last 2
years with no improvements....
So my question is, Will the messaging tray work with other alternate
messengers??? Same question about alternate Music Players etc?
I'm getting worried that Gnome are intergrating more and more
applications by default into gnome-shell which are poor applications
for the majority of us
and choosing a better alternate application for our needs will render
Gnome-shell not fully featured during use....
can anybody clear this up for me?
thankyou
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The messaging tray gives me notifications just fine on other players
and with Pidgin. I agree that Empathy isn't as "feature-filled" as
Pidgin, but Rhythmbox is actually pretty okay for my needs. The
integration isn't extreme; it's just a re-implementation of the current
notification standard (whatever it was).
-Ryan Peters
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