Re: default panel configuration

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 09:26:19PM +0000, iain wrote:
> man, 2003-01-06 kl. 20:48 skrev Mark McLoughlin:
> 
> > 	Yes, but I think most users will be confused with an empty grab handle
> > on the panel - that's why I don't want it there by default. Maybe that's
> > more a bug with the applet rather than a reason to not have it there by
> > default, though ...
> 
> Might be nice if it's automatically added or at least pops up a dialog
> saying "This program wants to add an icon to the panel notification area
> which you don't have on your panel. Would you like to add it now? [Yes,
> add the panel notification area] [NO PISS OFF AND NEVER TELL ME AGAIN]"
> 
> or something to that effect.
> 

I apologize if I'm being dense but where would this be useful to
not allow a an icon on the notification area?  Couldn't they have
just turned that off on some option on the application? (ie gaim
for instance has this)

I'm going by the idea that the notification area is a lot like
windows.

sri