-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Scott Ritchie wrote on 15/06/10 04:29: > > On 06/14/2010 12:31 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: >... >> You mentioned at UDS that before Wine began inserting notification >> area items into the Gnome notification area, it put them in a >> separate window. I suggest that it return to doing that. Java >> applications will be in the same situation. > > I'm worried that if we still have empty space in the top panel and then > present a window not in the top panel users will immediately wonder why > the window isn't just embedded in the panel like it used to be (and is > on Windows.) > > A window also has the normal inconveniences: to interact with it it > must first be focused on. It will also be very small (holding only a > single icon of content in most cases, too small for window controls). > > A window also means we need to worry about what to title it in the > bottom bar - for a user who doesn't even know they're running Wine, > spawning a "Wine System Tray" in the background and on the bottom is > likely to be missed. Populating an item in the bottom bar also means > we'll have less space available for other apps - In fact I'm reasonably > certain we waste less space in the top panel than the bottom panel by > just using the system tray icons. > > Basically, there's a reason Wine stopped using the systray window. >...
Fair enough. I've now specified that the Unity menu bar should have a notification area only for Wine and Java applications that don't know any better. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MenuBar#notification-area> - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzB+EgACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecorsACg0IsdzgT/vUu+1UUrq32y0tU2 BTkAn3XVoYXjI5nnYTPIE2dyi5VGjX/a =a38k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
