Following that whole "let's tidy the notification area" idea, I have the feeling that the biggest offenders now are the standard hardware applets. On my notification area right now I have Network Manager, Bluetooth, Battery Level, Sound and Typing Break. Only one of these is a notification. The others are persistent system status data that is necessary, often in flux, but totally irrelevant to notifications as in appointments and breaks.
It would REALLY help if there was a different applet for hardware information. There, in theory, users would be able to access hardware devices connected to their computer; printers, sound (with the new-fangled gnome volume control applet), networking, power, etc. (Maybe even mounted disks?). The end result would be a completely purified notification area by default, allowing it to be used for actual notifications again. Further, this could (in theory) give users a one-stop-shop for all things physically attached to their computers so they know where to look after connecting new hardware. Perhaps a worthy target for Karmic. Is anyone doing this? (Or is there a spec I can gawk at?) Thanks, Dylan McCall
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