Re: XDG StatusNotifier Specification: Feedback Invited

[Dan Winship <danw gnome org>]

On 01/13/2010 09:16 PM, Ted Gould wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 21:03 -0500, Dan Winship wrote:
>> 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?)
> 
> We don't plan on having everything ported for Lucid, that'd be insane on
> more than one level.  We plan on having the notification area still in
> the panel for Lucid so that both protocols could be used.

Hm... but if you're trying to scrub the mouse across the tray in a
menubar-like fashion, it would have to just skip over the old-style
trayicons I guess?

Anyway, we want a menubar-like tray for GNOME Shell too
(https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584651), and the new spec
seems like a good plan.

-- Dan