Re: GNOME 3.0 - shell and applets

[Luis Menina <liberforce freeside fr>]

Luca Ferretti a écrit :
> In suborder, another interesting question is: how could GNOME Desktop
> prevents applications to mis-use the Notification/Status area? By now
> we are providing gtk_staus_icon_*() functions and usage policies on
> HIG, but this wasn't enough to avoid bad usage.

HIG recommendations were not strongly stated :

"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*."

They don't oppose status and permanent state vs notification of punctual 
events clearly enough... But I don't blame them, I first thought that 
giving the link to that page would convince people, but no, they seem to 
 be reluctant on leaving the old taskbar à la Windows. Which I 
definitely hate.

But I agree that the situation must be clarified before GNOME 3.0 by the 
usability team.