On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 00:01 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: > On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 15:06 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > This is something that's been itching at me for a while, and Jeff > > prodded me in the direction of the list and Davyd's blog post[0]. As > > I'm not on Planet GNOME I figured I'd reply on the list instead. > > ... snip for brevity... > > Scott, we indeed have identical views. For anyone who didn't understand > my mumblings, try Scott's ;) > Excellent! From reading your original post I had the impression mine were a bit more radical (especially combining launchers and nicons). > Now, we need to discuss the prospect of making a pipe dream a reality ;) > *clears the breakables so he can handwave a bit* I think between us we've actually come up with several different, and wholly related, tasks there. * Panel Management. Basically the "zones" bit I was talking about; the stuff to make the panel a lot more intelligent about management of its contents. * Applet API. I'm with you that basically we're making everything a notification icon, in effect. The Applet APIs would need to be overhauled to make the world a simpler place. A lot of the harder work isn't needed with a more intelligent Panel. * Launcher Plus. This is a tricky bit; looking at a way to allow programs to "take over" their launcher for use as a control icon. Making the launchers more "active" in general ... if I click the Mozilla icon when its already running, it should focus it (or maybe open a new window, for Mozilla?) There's almost certainly some session management gubbins here. * Hardware/Hal Applets. Some kind of system to add and remove applets as hardware is added and removed. Either, as you suggest, integrate this into gnome-session or some kind of applet manager daemon. * Applets overhaul. Overhauling the applets themselves to work perfectly in the new world order. Does that sound about right? Scott -- Scott James Remnant scott canonical com
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