Re: DockBar-style minimization

[Tomasz Sterna <tomek xiaoka com>]

Dnia 2010-04-14, śro o godzinie 08:24 -0500, Ryan Peters pisze:
> And I can't stand that messaging menu personally; Ubuntu patches
> applications so you have to use their menu if you want anything close
> to a notification area icon, 

Indicator Applet is one of reasons I switched From Ubuntu to Arch
recently.


> About the API, why not just carry over the old one for the
> notification area to have compatibility with applications from other
> desktop environments (like KDE)?

1. Qt/Tk/etc. menu would look out of place as context menu of Activities
sidebar.
2. It would be hard/impossible to insert GS items like "New window" "Add
to favorites" in alien context menu.