On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Florian Müllner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 07:23 -0700, Sandy Armstrong wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I have a few questions regarding Tomboy in gnome-shell 3.0: >> >> 1) Will there still be a regular old notification area available, so >> that Tomboy can run in the tray as it always has? (obviously running >> in the tray is evil, blah blah blah, let's not get into that right >> now) > > Well, it is evil ;-) > > At least for the time being, tray icons are still displayed - the > notification area is now restricted to system status items, but other > icons have been moved to the message tray at the bottom. That said, > their use is highly discouraged, and the designers are pushing hard for > having them replaced.
Thanks for the info. Of course I agree about the evilness, but nothing better has come along yet, except Docky menus. >> 2) Are there any new or upcoming features in gnome-shell 3.0 that >> would allow Tomboy to reimplement its note menu directly in the shell >> (something like right-clicking the app icon), so that the notification >> area icon would no longer be necessary? > > Yes - it is planned to enable applications to add custom actions to > their application menu (right next to the activities button). Nice but insufficient. User should not have to switch to Tomboy to gain access to the note menu. >> 3) Will gnome-shell 3.0 support extensions that modify the shell UI in >> arbitrary ways? > > Yes and no. There are no technical restrictions of what extensions can > do - extension code has access to the entire javascript code base (just > like "official" shell code). Some arbitrary modifications like removal > of elements are very likely to break stuff though, so not everything is > possible ... arbitrary additions on the other hand are unlikely to > impose problems. Okay. Any docs yet on how to write/run/install extensions? Sandy _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
