Re: Will traditional notification area be available in gnome-shell 3.0?

[Sergey Udaltsov <sergey udaltsov gmail com>]

Thanks, Jon. This is not exactly what notification area was doing. You
can create popups, but you cannot create status icons using this
standard, can you?

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 9:27 PM, William Jon McCann
<william jon mccann gmail com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Sergey Udaltsov
> <sergey udaltsov gmail com> wrote:
>> Hi folks
>>
>>>>> Not really... ?We should be porting applications away from it as soon
>>>>> as possible. ?I was going to make a separate announcement about it
>>>>> once I got a few more things done but since you brought it up :)
>> What's the recommended way for the apps to implement cross-DE
>> notification/status GUI elements? Current notification area, no matter
>> how evil it is, still provides cross-DE solution. Will we have
>> something like that in the GNOME 3 world? I think we can not expect
>> from 3rd party apps to support gnome-only notification, can we?
>> Perhaps I missed some recent fd.o advances in that area...
>
> The notification spec.  http://library.gnome.org/devel/notification-spec/
>
> Jon
>