(CC'ed to ubuntu-devel-discuss, as this is where further discussions should happen. Please everybody answer there.)
Op zaterdag 28-03-2009 om 02:23 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Ted Gould: > The notification area is fundamentally broken. It's broken in the > fact that what it requires is applications to make a small X window, > which then gets embedded into the panel. This means that the > application must learn what the interface of what is around it is, and > conform to that. > There is no reasonable way for applications to learn how all the > different panels work, and make custom behavior for all of them. What > is better is if the applications export the data they want to appear > there, and leave the rendering of that data to the panel itself. Then > it will be consistent with the UI concepts that are being used. I agree with that mostly, and I think most developers will agree with this idea in principle. One important issue that people have been complaining about is that you[*] removed some very important icons in the notification area without providing an alternative. No, the popup/popunder is not an alternative, because it's not _persistent_ (it seems like you[*] don't understand this, because I haven't seen a single answer to this complaint--except for "disable the new behaviour of update-notifier completely"). What you[*] should have done is provide an alternative: exporting the data so that something can display it, and provide at least a basic "something" so that it actually gets shown. (Maybe it's possible to include this in the new indicator-messages applet, I don't know.) [*] not you personally of course, but the whole group of people involved in this change -- Jan Claeys -- [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332945 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
