On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 19:11:31 +0200 Marco Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Monday 07 September 2009, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > > Marco Martin wrote: > > > On Monday 07 September 2009, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> I am probably a bit late at this, but thought I would ask anyway. > > >> > > >> Why did you choose the term "KNotificationItem"? I am afraid > > >> this is going to cause confusion with the existing notification > > >> systems. > > > > > > the choice of the name has been a bit painful, it has gone trough > > > several renames. > > > iirc this was chisen because in gnome and windows the systray is > > > already called notification area and we didn't want to confuse > > > the current implementation with the protocol, since the last goal > > > is to remove some of the icons from the system tray, probably > > > representing the items of "application" category in the taskbar, > > > this would make the "SystemTray" term less meaningful > > > > I understand the reasons, but I still think this is confusing. Is > > it too late to change the name, or can it still be brainstormed? > > not until 4.4.0 would mean to break and unbreak the whole trunk again > but oh, well, got used to :) > but has to be -really- worth it and i don't see really better names > right now, systemtray is even more problematic BTW, I wonder about the use of the org.freedesktop namespace. I know this is only a draft but assuming we try to follow this new freedesktop.org specification process now (which I'd like go through one or two more revision threads because I remember I disagreed with a few points), then I guess it'd be better not to use org.freedesktop until the spec is adopted by others. - Jannis
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