Re: GNOME 3.0 - shell and applets

[Luis Menina <liberforce freeside fr>]

Toms a écrit :

> 1) System tray - applets that could end up in system tray, most
> probably contextually - like, when they are needed or make sense. Or,
> sometimes per user request in preferences (something like a "show in
> system tray" checkbox for those marginal "nobody knows" cases). As
> pointed out[2], KDE has some specs worth considering on the case.

Please, don't try to abuse the system tray for things that should be 
applets. System tray has been made to notify events. One should be able 
to use GNOME without requiring a notification applet. A recent example 
of things gone wrong is the volume controler : it should be an applet an 
not a system tray item, as it presents a permanent state and not an 
event nor a response to an event.

From 
http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/desktop-notification-area.html.en 

"The utility of the notification area decreases rapidly when more than 
about four icons are always present. For this reason, icons that appear 
only temporarily in response to events are preferable."