Re: Notification icons hell (was Re: [gpm] Re: Gnome 2.16 Module Proposal: GNOME Power Manager)

[Steve Frécinaux <nudrema gmail com>]

Rodney Dawes wrote:
> This is a configuration problem, not a user interface problem. Just
> because you might want to do that, does not mean that all other users
> will want to as well. In fact, if you want to say that, we can talk
> about the majority of the Desktop market, and show how useful it is to
> have them in the tray, because all of the IM clients are there in the
> same area, so it makes it easy to use them all. And useful status
> information is there too. You don't have to rove all around your desktop
> looking for information, as it's all always in the same location.
>
> But that's just me (and another 85% of the market).

I really, really don't care about the market. I'm not a carpet salesman.

About our current subject, I like my desktop being well organized. And 
as all my status monitors (I'm using a laptop, so I'm talking about 
network interfaces status and frequency monitor) sit on a part of my 
panel, I don't see any good reason why the battery monitor should be on 
a separate place, in the notification area, with no way for me to put it 
among the other ones.

And what happen is just the opposite of what you describe : that status 
icon is not in the right place, so I have to look around my desktop to 
find it. Worse, it's messed up with app icons (which I'm quite ok they 
stay in the notification area) and other real notification icons...