On 04/07/2011 11:52 PM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Rick Spencer [2011-04-07 18:38 -0700]: >> 1. There are key feature regressions, for example, there is no systray >> support for many important applications. > > For the record, this is currently purely a design decision, not a > technical problem. Unity does have a systray, but most applications > are not allowed to use it. The current exception list is AFAIR Java > applications, Skype, and Mumble. > > If this is a major issue, then frankly I'd rather just remove the > whitelist and allow all old-style systray applications than dropping > Unity by default completely. > > Martin
I think it's the height of arrogance for us to tell a user that we're going to deliberately break his application because it wasn't updated to use our new indicator library. "Still working the way it used to" is a reasonable fall back. Yes, there may be a political benefit to the white list as it will increase the pressure for applications to change, but in the meantime we'll have deliberately introduced a regression. I can't see how that would be a good thing. Scott Ritchie -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
