Re: GNOME 3.0 - shell and applets

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 15 May 2009, at 23:29, Luis Menina wrote:

> 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 :

Well, nothing in the HIG is very strongly stated, of course-- it's a  
set of guidelines, not a rule book.

(We discussed using RFC-style MUST/SHOULD/MAY wording in the HIG at  
one point, but it just didn't really seem appropriate...)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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