Re: gnome-shell application intergration

[Dan Winship <danw gnome org>]

On 06/16/2010 01:04 AM, kaddy080 gmail com wrote:
> 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.

You cannot actually do this yet using rhythmbox; the mockups are
currently just mockups. However, this is being implemented using
extensions to the existing notification protocol, so other music players
would be able to use the same extensions to get the same functionality.

(For chat, as other people have explained, the shell integrates with the
telepathy framework, not with empathy specifically.)

-- Dan