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

[William Jon McCann <william jon mccann gmail com>]

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