Re: GNOME 3.0 - shell and applets

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Frederic:

> As a side note, another reason developers are currently abusing
> notification area is that is it the only cross-desktop
> (GNOME/KDE/LXDE/XFCE/IceWM/insert_your_favorite_de_here) way to get
> "applets-like" icons on a Xorg system, which also have the nice pro to
> not pull something as ugly as bonobo in the loop.

Wow, that sounds useful.

> So, if we really want to improve the situation for GNOME 3, we should
> also try to solve this cross-desktop "missing" API for applets.

Agreed.  Good thing we are meeting with the KDE people in a month at
GUADEC.

Brian