On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 22:34, Colin Walters wrote: > > 1) Is this feature total crack or not? One concern - could it > potentially be confusing to newbies who have accidentally hidden then > window and then don't know how to get it back? > Personally I think this is something we should try and resolve with the HIG team. I do not see anything in regards to tray/notification use in the HIG proper. As many have said, gaim uses its own behavior. What we need to do is decide on a standard that can added to the HIG for others to follow. If we plan to make the notification area not like the well known windows system tray, then we need some sort of standard to govern this. As to what we should do, I think an applet is best. I prefer to try and reserve the notification area to apps that are not user driven. IE acme is a good example. I do not need a acme window open all the time. I may use it once every 6 months to setup a new key. Other then that, it just sits there. The benefit is that it notifies me that it is running by keeping an icon in the "tray". When we talk about music applications, I think if the user needs control outside of the interface, and applet should be used. However the downfall of this becomes to over abundance of applets. We could still use the tray if need be, but limit what it does. I do not see the need to control RB from it. I can see it giving me status info by icons for playing paused. It also can be used to hide the window from the window lists if need be, but thats it. Of course then the next issue you may encounter is the lack of the notification applet being used at all. There should be some sort of way to determine if it is in use or not, and if not, everything is controlled by the window list. If present, it can hide. This forces the window to be available no matter if the tray is used or not. My 2 cents for the evening. Now back to homework. -- Sean Harshbarger | "Only two things are infinite, harshy@dersoldat.org | the universe and human stupidity, http://www.dersoldat.org | and I'm not sure about the former." http://coaster.sf.net | - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Key fingerprint = 086A AA96 51DD D84D 3E64 1B26 778F 2335 C828 E736
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