gnome-shell application intergration

[kaddy080 gmail com]

Actually, that is incorrect. 
I have tried Pidgin and sent myself messages from another computer/IM account... and the message tray does not act the same way as it does
when your using empathy. With empathy, you are able to recieve msgs and reply to messages straight from the message tray at the bottom instead of opening up your messenger window.... 
With pidgin, you get the msg at the bottom, but you cannot click on it and reply etc...... and as for other Music players, it is the same thing... you cannot interact with the message tray to be able to
control the application... such as skipping songs etc..... but you can do this if you are using rhythmbox. 

In my opinion, Gnome should of picked better applications to be intergrated into gnome-shell... Empathy is not good enough.... rhythmbox is ok, but it would be nice if banshee was supported in gnome-shell....
and arghhh, don't get me started about the crippled Shotwell photo application.... although shotwell is not relevent in this current discussion.....

Can anybody confirm support for "other ' alternate well known  messengers/music players for intergration in gnome-shell????


cheers
On , Ryan Peters <sloshy45 sbcglobal net> wrote:
>   
>   
> 
> 
> On 06/15/2010 07:15 PM, kaddy080 gmail com wrote:
> Just a query I have about the future of gnome.....
> 
>   
> 
> I have noticed that certain applications are married together with
> gnome-shell, such as empathy and rhythmbox..... hence...
> 
> the messaging tray works together with them. 
> 
> The only problem is that Empathy and Rhythmbox are poor choices of
> applications for several reasons... especially empathy...
> 
> It seems as though if people want the full use of gnome-shell they are
> pretty much forced to use empathy, which hasn't even got file transfer
> support for 
> 
> most popular messenging protocols, or offline messaging... people have
> been complaining about its lack of features for atleast the Last 2
> years with no improvements....
> 
>   
> 
> So my question is, Will the messaging tray work with other alternate
> messengers??? Same question about alternate Music Players etc?
> 
> I'm getting worried that Gnome are intergrating more and more
> applications by default into gnome-shell which are poor applications
> for the majority of us 
> 
> and choosing a better alternate application for our needs will render
> Gnome-shell not fully featured during use....
> 
>   
> 
>   
> 
> can anybody clear this up for me?
> 
>   
> 
> thankyou
>   
> 
> _______________________________________________
> gnome-shell-list mailing list
> gnome-shell-list gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
>   
> 
> The messaging tray gives me notifications just fine on other players
> and with Pidgin. I agree that Empathy isn't as "feature-filled" as
> Pidgin, but Rhythmbox is actually pretty okay for my needs. The
> integration isn't extreme; it's just a re-implementation of the current
> notification standard (whatever it was).
> 
> 
> 
>     -Ryan Peters
> 
> 
>