Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Am Mo., 25. März 2019 um 19:39 Uhr schrieb Emmanuele Bassi via desktop-devel-list : > > > > On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 18:27, Florian Müllner wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 6:50 PM Emmanuele Bassi wrote: >> > >> > You cut the part where I said the appindicator implementation should be >> >

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Britt Yazel
How does KDE deal with appindicators? Is there something we could partner with then on? Are they trying to solve this also? Did KDE modify the spec? Not knowing much about the nuance of the different indicator solutions, my experience with kstatusnotifier has been fairly great. 5/6 icons show up

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Emmanuele Bassi via desktop-devel-list
On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 18:27, Florian Müllner wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 6:50 PM Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > > > > You cut the part where I said the appindicator implementation should be > changed. :-) > > I thought you were referring to the client library, not the underlying > spec :-) >

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Florian Müllner
On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 6:50 PM Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > > You cut the part where I said the appindicator implementation should be > changed. :-) I thought you were referring to the client library, not the underlying spec :-) Cheers, Florian ___

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Emmanuele Bassi via desktop-devel-list
On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 17:34, Florian Müllner wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 5:36 PM Emmanuele Bassi via desktop-devel-list > wrote: > > > > If the answer to status icons is to adopt/adapt the appindicator API, > I'm also fine with that; > > I'm not. The StatusNotifier spec is seriously

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Florian Müllner
On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 5:36 PM Emmanuele Bassi via desktop-devel-list wrote: > > If the answer to status icons is to adopt/adapt the appindicator API, I'm > also fine with that; I'm not. The StatusNotifier spec is seriously flawed, and I don't want to support it unless at least the issues that

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Mattias Bengtsson via desktop-devel-list
On Mon, 2019-03-25 at 12:22 -0400, Will Thompson wrote: > > [...] In particular, several third-party, non-free apps like Dropbox > which are partially or totally unusable without a status notifier > already support it. (Not to make this all about Dropbox – it's just > an app I use that falls into

Managing Google API key secrets

2019-03-25 Thread Michael Terry
There was a previous thread about how GOA's keys are only intended for GNOME-core apps and that third party apps should use their own keys. But there was also some uncertainty around how to do that for Google, since Google's TOS requires that you not commit key secrets to an open git. Here's a

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Emmanuele Bassi via desktop-devel-list
On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 16:29, Will Thompson wrote: > On the other hand: this API under its various names is already > widely-supported both by (non-GNOME) apps, and by widely-used desktop > environments – a virtuous cycle. In particular, several third-party, > non-free apps like Dropbox which

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Pat Suwalski
On 2019-03-25 12:15 p.m., mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: I wonder if there's been any serious design consideration of this proposal? The dash seems like it might be a safer place to put things than allowing applications to clutter the precious top bar. Not to be impertinent, but attached is my

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Emmanuele Bassi via desktop-devel-list
On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 16:15, wrote: The dash seems like it might be a safer place to put things > than allowing applications to clutter the precious top bar. > Like every other solution for placing stuff into the overview, this fails to take into account menus created by status icons; the

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Will Thompson
I agree with Britt. In Endless we currently ship an in-tree copy of TopIcons, but this won't fly in a Wayland world, so we're considering what to do in future. On Mon, 25 Mar 2019, at 11:20, Emmanuele Bassi via desktop-devel-list wrote: > Sadly, this means a complete API change, which makes the

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Mattias Bengtsson via desktop-devel-list
On Mon, 2019-03-25 at 10:21 -0400, Pat Suwalski wrote: > > [...] > Is that a joke? On a default gnome install on any modern screen, > only about 25% of the top bar contains any information at all. It > can't be "the most important real estate" and be so underutilized. It really can. One stated

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Jan Tojnar via desktop-devel-list
Since GNOME is just badly copying Android design , we can just do it properly and display the symbolic icons of applications showing notifications next to the clock. We need to make sure the notifications are not abused like tray icons were, though. It is good we can already disable

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread mcatanzaro
On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 1:06 PM, Britt Yazel wrote: I believe that there is an elegant solution to handling sys-tray icons without sacrificing our core goals, one idea being to incorporate it into the Dash. I wonder if there's been any serious design consideration of this proposal? The dash

Re: Extension review

2019-03-25 Thread mcatanzaro
On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 6:16 AM, Neil McGovern wrote: Just to confirm though, is this for working on the extension review infrastructure, or actually doing reviews? That may change the answer :) Actually doing reviews, I think. Dunno, I'll pass him on to you.

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Pat Suwalski
On 2019-03-25 11:07 a.m., Andre Klapper wrote: You may want to disable "Plugins > Notifications" in Rhythmbox to not flood your notification area with things you don't consider helpful. I think you have just corroborated my point. You can hide notifications you don't want. The notification

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Pat Suwalski
On 2019-03-25 7:19 a.m., Emmanuele Bassi via desktop-devel-list wrote: Which would achieve nothing except, once again, shoving icons and menus into one of the most important pieces of screen real estate we have just because some application developers simply cannot live without their

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Andre Klapper
On Mon, 2019-03-25 at 10:49 -0400, Pat Suwalski wrote: > On 2019-03-25 10:37 a.m., Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > > On a default gnome install on any modern screen, only > > about 25% of the top bar contains any information at all. It can't be > > "the most important real estate" and be so

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Florian Müllner
On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 2:38 PM Alexandre Franke wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 7:07 PM Britt Yazel wrote: > > I want to re-poen an old argument now that we have seen the effects of > > > > An example of this biting us in the arse is that with 3.32 > > TopIcons is causing the CPU usage to

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Pat Suwalski
On 2019-03-25 10:37 a.m., Emmanuele Bassi via desktop-devel-list wrote: On a default gnome install on any modern screen, only about 25% of the top bar contains any information at all. It can't be "the most important real estate" and be so underutilized. It's important because it's

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Leslie S Satenstein via desktop-devel-list
I am an end user.   I was an avid Gnome user for the past 10 years, until 3.28.  Then I had enough. Gnome's changes have driven me to use KDE.  I will accept performance improvements, bot not improvements that take away convenience.  Want me back? I just find that Gnome does not publish a

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Emmanuele Bassi via desktop-devel-list
On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 14:29, Pat Suwalski wrote: > On 2019-03-25 7:19 a.m., Emmanuele Bassi via desktop-devel-list wrote: > > Which would achieve nothing except, once again, shoving icons and menus > > into one of the most important pieces of screen real estate we have just > > because some

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Alexandre Franke
On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 7:07 PM Britt Yazel wrote: > I want to re-poen an old argument now that we have seen the effects of > removing the sys-tray/app-indicator tray for well over a year. In short, the > users are not happy. *Some* users. Please refrain from making such dubious claims when

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Florian Müllner
On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 9:57 AM Allan Day via desktop-devel-list wrote: >> An example of this biting us in the arse is that with 3.32 TopIcons is >> causing the CPU usage to run through the roof, and people are blaming the >> Shell for the CPU usage, not the extension, leaving our users with a

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Emmanuele Bassi via desktop-devel-list
On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 10:39, Daniel Mustieles García via desktop-devel-list wrote: > Can't GtkStatusIcon be modified to show icons in the top bar? > No. GtkStatusIcon encodes the XEMBED-based tray icon specification; this means that the application code is responsible for: - sending icon

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Daniel Mustieles García via desktop-devel-list
El lun., 25 mar. 2019 a las 12:19, Emmanuele Bassi () escribió: > On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 10:39, Daniel Mustieles García via > desktop-devel-list wrote: > >> Can't GtkStatusIcon be modified to show icons in the top bar? >> > > No. > > GtkStatusIcon encodes the XEMBED-based tray icon

Re: Extension review

2019-03-25 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, 2019-03-24 at 21:43 -0400, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Talk to me and Neil. We have a general idea on what we want done .. > Just to confirm though, is this for working on the extension review infrastructure, or actually doing reviews? That may change the answer :) Neil -- Neil

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Daniel Mustieles García via desktop-devel-list
Can't GtkStatusIcon be modified to show icons in the top bar? Permanently adding the extension code to the shell (which, if I've undesrtood properly, "moves" icons from tray to topbar) will be a dirty but effective solution. I think, from my deep lack of knowledge about how it works, thak

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Niels De Graef via desktop-devel-list
Hey Justin, You can do so by going to the following link: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list At the bottom, you will find the appropriate button to unsubscribe. Cheers, nielsdg On ma, Mar 25, 2019 at 11:18 AM, Justin Joseph via desktop-devel-list wrote: Sorry, how

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Justin Joseph via desktop-devel-list
Sorry, how do I unsubscribe from this list? I can't find any option. On Mon, 25 Mar, 2019, 2:27 PM Allan Day via desktop-devel-list, < desktop-devel-list@gnome.org> wrote: > Hey Britt, > > Britt Yazel wrote: > >> >> I want to re-poen an old argument now that we have seen the effects of >>

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Allan Day
Link Dupont wrote: ... > Is there a place > in the System menu (the top-right corner menu) where these application > icons + menus could live? The GSConnect extension adds an entry there. > ... Unfortunately, GtkStatusIcon is limited in what it allows us to do: you can't embed the icons in

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Daniel Mustieles García via desktop-devel-list
Hi This extension (Topicons) shows tray icons in the topbar so it would be possible to always show them in the topbar instead of using the tray without touching the code in the source applications. Regards El lun., 25 mar. 2019 a las 9:57,

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Allan Day via desktop-devel-list
Hey Britt, Britt Yazel wrote: > > I want to re-poen an old argument now that we have seen the effects of > removing the sys-tray/app-indicator tray for well over a year. In short, > the users are not happy. > As I recently wrote on GitLab [1], I'm open to re-evaluating this from a design

Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

2019-03-25 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Sat, 2019-03-23 at 11:06 -0700, Britt Yazel wrote: > Ladies and Gentlemen, > > Congrats on an excellent 3.32 release! As the one handling the front > facing side of our social media accounts, I can safely say that the > users are EXTREMELY happy with the changes, both features and >