Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo member fsf org>]

Florian Max <florian muellner gmail com> writes:

Hi Florian,

> The support for status icons is considered legacy, its use is highly
> discouraged (and so would be the use of the KDE/Canonical replacement
> if support is added) - the message tray is a place to notify users
> about a particular event, not a taskbar replacement for applications.

I tend to agree.  However, there are few ubiquitous apps which one
doesn't want to see but always have quick access to.  For example music
players which you want to pause quickly when the phone rings, or even
more importantly a clipboard manager [fn:1].

I imagine it would be cool if such apps could add small control widgets
into the top bar, for example [>/|| << >>] for a music player.  But
probably there's no way to do something like that in a DE-agnostic
way...

Bye,
Tassilo

Footnotes:
[fn:1] Do I see it correctly that GNOME3 doesn't have one?  Right now, I
       use parcellite which puts itself into the message tray.
       Accessing it is not really convenient, and I do that very
       frequently. :-(