Re: Gnome shell suggestions after a bit of usage

[Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <andrew pitonyak org>]

On 07/09/2011 06:25 AM, Giovanni Campagna wrote:
> Again, this kind of interaction should be partly exposed with libnotify
> (message tray) and partly with GApplication (dash, application menu).
> Design is there, so is code, and I wouldn't consider using the message
> tray like that an abuse. It is the expected place for background tasks,
> which I think are chat (inline reply), music (play/pause, next/prev),
> file operations (progress, cancel/pause), email (most recent,
> star/read/delete), microblogging (like/reply).
> The system status area instead should be used only for system-level
> stuff, that is exposed by the Core and affects the operation of whole
> computer.
Oh, that is where Pidgin went when I killed the GUI.... I was not able 
to find it so I dropped to command line and used "kill". That is a bit 
embarrassing. I appreciate the post.

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