Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage



Il giorno ven, 08/07/2011 alle 09.27 -0700, Adam Williamson ha scritto:
> On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 18:24 +0200, Giovanni Campagna wrote:
> 
> > > > 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.
> > 
> > This is not true. The message tray is a central interaction point for a
> > well defined set of applications (chat, music, email, etc).
> 
> You're confused. We're talking about the 'system area in
> gnome-shell' (i.e. the top right, where the user menu, NM menu,
> Bluetooth menu, sound menu and accessibility menu live), not the
> 'message tray', at this point.

Yes, I was confused because he talked about something similar to the
GNOME 2 notification area and canonical indicator applet, which the
system status area clearly is not (it is completely handled by
gnome-shell, for one).

Giovanni

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