On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:51:14PM +0100, Calum Benson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 11:52, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > > Who knows ? There seems to be quite a few different interpretations of > > what the notification area icon really is. See the long thread below > > where I tried to get some consensus on the matter: > > > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-March/thread.html#00351 > > I'm hopeful this is something we can nail down in the next version of > the HIG... there's already a placeholder section there in the draft > version for it, but I wouldn't exactly recommend following the > guidelines there just yet :) > > I have to agree it doesn't sound like the wallpaper thing really belongs > in the notification area though... IIRC most peoples' interpretation of > what a notification area doohicky should be is something that either > notifies of events (e.g. new mail) or gives periodic feedback on some > process (e.g. CPU load), but this just basically sounds like a menu... The notification area can also be used for "panel-applet"-like programs, which are cross-desktop compliant. I have to run gnome-panel to run a gnome-panel applet, but I don't to run a system tray/notification area application. Ben
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