Re: Gnote and GNOME 3

[Rahul Sundaram <metherid gmail com>]

On 05/15/2010 03:47 AM, Aurimas Černius wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> GNOME Shell is replacing metacity and the GNOME Panel in GNOME 3.0
>> release.  GNOME Shell has no applet support and I think Gnote will have
>> to integrate with GNOME Shell as a extension instead.   Some details
>> from Owen Taylor from the Red Hat Desktop team,  lead developer of GNOME
>> Shell at
>>
>> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2009-April/msg00071.html
>>
>> Not sure exactly what Tomboy is planning on doing but it would be useful
>> to get a head start on doing this.  I suppose I could split up applet
>> support into a sub package in Fedora to allow users who will want to
>> continue using the GNOME panel and metacity  to still get Gnote support.
>
>
> I'm trying GNOME Shell at the moment. You can start Gnote at login and
> it's icon will appear in notification area with all gnote
> functionality. Maybe this is the solution?
>

I am not sure notification area is the right fit.  Afaik, the
notification area is moving towards being a place for transient
notifications rather than permanent icons.

Rahul