Re: Applets? [was Re: Planning for GNOME 3.0]

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 21 Apr 2009, at 04:34, Travis Watkins wrote:

> This one at least has been solved in Windows 7 by merging the
> QuickLaunch area with running applications. A dock would also solve
> this problem nicely. You'll notice OS X doesn't have a lot of
> "applets" on the menu bar. The only one I've seen a lot of people have
> is smcFanControl.

You'd be surprised.  I currently have 15, 11 of which are standard OS  
X "applets" (but not all of which are turned on by default, admittedly).

On the plus side, the good thing about OS X menu extras (as they're  
properly called) is that they're all generally of a uniform size and  
appearance (they fit into a square, and they're monochrome)-- the 15 I  
have still take up less than half the width of my menu bar.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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