> On Thursday 23 April 2009 05:42:02 pm Ted Gould wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 17:48 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> > So to get things started, I'd like to suggest Messaging Menu >> integrated >> > into the systray via the new protocol as an Ayatana objective for >> Karmic. >> > To assist in this effort, another community developer (I'll thank him >> by >> > name after it works) is working on getting KDE trunk (the to be 4.3) >> > running on Jaunty via Project Neon. That should provide a reasonably >> > stable basis for Ayatana developers to work with. >> >> I think that this isn't a good idea for the messaging indicator. The >> principle reason for that is that the spec only deals with the icon not >> the menu part of the indicator. If we took the current indicator, >> ported it to this spec, and then displayed it in KPanel -- the menu >> would still be a GTK+ menu. Which is going to look... okay, but not >> really that great. >> >> I think that we need to strive for a better experience than that on the >> *buntu desktops[1]. I think that the panels on both should be very >> tightly integrated and consistent, and I don't think we can achieve that >> using either of the notification area specs. > > I don't think Scott was suggesting we use a GTK+ menu on the KDE desktop. > Why > can't a separate Plasma widget menu be written that does whatever it is > you > want it to do to? You can still have a common service to handle > information > processing for both desktops; the plasmoid simply displays the information > passed to it.
Yes, I was envisioning something like this. This would provide the kind of native, integrated look and feel that I think Ted was alluding to in his response. Scott K _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
