Re: GNOME 3.0 - shell and applets

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 15 May 2009, at 06:47, Dylan McCall wrote:

> This could be countered similarly: Please stop abusing the system tray
> for notifications, GNOME ;)
> Sure, the FreeDesktop spec hints at using it for notifications, but  
> that
> plan is really not well defined so its role ends up very inconsistent
> between different projects who offer up their own interpretations.

Well, the HIG makes it fairly clear too:
<hhttp://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/nightly/desktop-notification-area.html.en#desktop-notification-appropriate-use 
>

But unfortunately, only in the draft version :/

Cheeri,
Calum.

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