Re: [Usability]Notification Area guidelines

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 14:25, Loban A Rahman wrote:
> > Additionally, a lot of "always there" icons the user might not
> > necesarily want to always be there, or can't always be there.  What if
> > the user logs in on several different machines with an NFS mounted home
> > dir, and some of those machines have randr and some don't - that icon
> > should only appear when the extension is available.  Doing this with an
> > applet is sketchy at best, and a warty UI pain in the ass at worst.
> 
> If RANDR is what I think it is, it shouldn't be an applet or a
> notification icon. Shouldn't it just be inside the control-center, and
> quickly accessible by right-clicking on the desktop?

Yes, that probably woudl be better - i was just using one of the given
examples in my response.  

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