"Christiano Farina Haesbaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:18:36 -0300:
> Hello there this is my first post to the list so take it easy :P. > > I was wondering if there is any support for gnome's notification area ? > > It would be nice to have a small icon showing unreaded posts, or maybe > something else. > > I realize that the notification area is a freedesktop standard and it's > available not only in gnome. > > If not, I'm willing to create one. There's no support for it yet. Charles hasn't seemed to interested in it in the past, I believe because integrating it would require additional GNOME dependencies and he prefers to stay with GTK-only dependencies. He's right. Take me, for instance, I'm a KDE person, I don't have GNOME installed and don't want it installed! Knowing you're going to be compiling every update has a way of encouraging what's good safe computing practice anyway, don't have installed what you don't need! =:^) But I'd absolutely love to have it here, if it didn't introduce additional dependencies, and if it degraded gracefully if necessary with older GTK versions. That's a stiff order, but with all the functionality in newer GTKs, it just might be possible. While you're at it or if that's still not easily done, consider working on a patch to add printer support using the newer GTK functionality. I KNOW that's in new GTKs, and Charles wants it back in newer pan, but last he said anything about it probably ~18 months ago, he didn't think the GTK printing support was mature enough yet, and didn't want to break backward compatibility but didn't want to hassle writing it up to properly degrade gracefully, either. But I'm quite sure he'd take a patch implementing it, if one were handed to him that filled those conditions, and unlike the notification/tray area, I KNOW GTK supports printing now. And it's a reasonably often requested feature, too, so if you're up to it... =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-devel mailing list Pan-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-devel
