Luca Ferretti a écrit :
In suborder, another interesting question is: how could GNOME Desktop prevents applications to mis-use the Notification/Status area? By now we are providing gtk_staus_icon_*() functions and usage policies on HIG, but this wasn't enough to avoid bad usage.
HIG recommendations were not strongly stated :"The utility of the notification area decreases rapidly when more than about four icons are always present. For this reason, icons that appear only temporarily in response to events are *preferable*."
They don't oppose status and permanent state vs notification of punctual events clearly enough... But I don't blame them, I first thought that giving the link to that page would convince people, but no, they seem to be reluctant on leaving the old taskbar à la Windows. Which I definitely hate.
But I agree that the situation must be clarified before GNOME 3.0 by the usability team.