Re: GNOME 3.0 - shell and applets

[Hubert Figuiere <hub figuiere net>]

On 05/29/2009 09:05 AM, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.


Also the KDE people have developed a new spec for Status Icon that is 
apparently more versatile, and would love to see it implemented in GNOME.


Hub