Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

[Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>]

On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 15:19 +0200, Aurélien Naldi wrote:

> As far as I know, libnotify supports only notifications (and does it
> well). They can vanish after a while or require acknowledgement, but
> they can not be truly persistent. The notification area was used both
> for such notifications and to provide a way to interact with
> "background" applications.

The reason for this, historically, is that it's an XDG standard while
panel applets never have been, FWIW.

> I do like the notification part in gnome-shell (beside the integrated
> chat stealing focus, but all it needs is tweaking), I was talking
> about the "interact with background application" part: I thought
> gnome-shell also had an API for this as the indicators proposed by
> canonical have been rejected. From a user point of view, the system
> area in gnome-shell is very similar. What I do not know is wether it
> is it limited to the shell and extensions, or if any application can
> add something as well.

It's limited to the Shell (and extensions), by design. The Shell
developers want the Shell interface to be consistent, not vary between
users, distros and apps.
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