Re: XDG StatusNotifier Specification: Feedback Invited

[Dan Winship <danw gnome org>]

On 01/13/2010 02:52 PM, Ted Gould wrote:
> Basically our goal is to clean up the current systray and provide a 
> consistent means of interacting with applications that choose to put 
> items in there.  This means choosing a middle ground where we provide 
> enough flexibility for applications to do something interesting while 
> not allowing them to go crazy.  The middle ground we chose is a menu.

What are you planning to do with NetworkManager? That's currently the
go-craziest of the notification icons, but it's generally pretty *good*
crazy and it would be hard to implement that functionality with a plain
text-only menu.

(And what about the volume indicator? Are you just swapping that back to
being an applet?)

-- Dan