Re: [Usability]Notification Area guidelines

[Wesley Leggette <wleggette gate net>]

On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 23:35, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 15:40, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 21:20, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>  
> > > > This may make sense in a very small amount of use cases. I wouldn't throw
> > > > the things out entirely which may be useful in a very minute number of
> > > > cases.
> > > 
> > > Do you have any example use cases in which this approach would make sense?
> > > Many Windows programs do this (as does acme), reducing the value of the
> > > notification area as a useful tool for the user -> overloaded with icons =
> > > too much information.
> > 
> > VirtuaGirl, an RandR docklet if we had one (similar thing in windows
> > exists).
> 
> 	It may be obvious to some people what either of would be, but its not
> to me. So you might want to ellaborate.
> 
> > > I agree. I have a proposal to post later on about how to implement the
> > > notification area in a different way, which would hopefully solve some of
> > > its problems due to being an applet.
> > 
> > I had a proposal, but it seems foobar is no more, so that one is down
> > the drain. The issue now remains that the panel should handle gravity
> > inside of it correctly for applets instead. Personally, I only use the
> > foobar, so now I'm left with no choice but to salvage that code for my
> > use. The normal panel just can't provide the same interface that the
> > foobar does, no matter how many menu applets you write and embed on it.
> 
> 	Now that's a helpful comment. Why *can't* an edge panel with a menu bar
> and window menu applet provide the same interface as the foobar? (apart
> from bugs which you should log to bugzilla). That's the assumption on
> which the decision to remove the foobar was based.

What's the foobar?


> 
> 	Random moaning with no explanations will not get your problems fixed.
> 
> Good Luck,
> Mark.
> 
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