On 15 May 2009, at 23:29, Luis Menina wrote:
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 :
Well, nothing in the HIG is very strongly stated, of course-- it's a set of guidelines, not a rule book.
(We discussed using RFC-style MUST/SHOULD/MAY wording in the HIG at one point, but it just didn't really seem appropriate...)
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