-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chow Loong Jin wrote on 02/05/11 19:07: > > In Ubuntu 11.04, Unity has effectively removed notification area > support for almost everything but a few exceptions, which are > maintained in a whitelist specified in dconf. > > I'm not exactly sure why this happened, but I'm thinking that it's > something along the lines of forcing all applications to move to the > new and improved indicators.
Yes. <http://design.canonical.com/2010/04/notification-area/> > This actually got me thinking.. rather than hiding the icons of the > applications not in the whitelist, how about emulating indicators for > them? Disclaimer: I don't know if this idea has been brought up before, > so if it has, please point me in the right direction. > > I haven't actually given much thought to the implementation, so I don't > actually know how hard it is to implement, if it's even possible, but > design-wise, it could be something like taking the context menu from > the notification area icon and using that as the emulated indicator's > menu, and add an extra entry to the top of the menu for launching the > application. >... As I understand it, an external process (such as Unity's menu bar) has no way of knowing what kinds of interaction a notification area item will respond to. Without actually triggering those events, there's no programmatic way to predict what it will do when hovered over, when clicked, when double-clicked, when right-clicked, or when dragged. So there is no "context menu from the notification area icon" in any parseable place. Rather, when a notification area icon is right-clicked, it sometimes runs some code that happens to open a menu nearby. - -- mpt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk3T07kACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecpUEACeKvcW7LDElpepfvPLKtuPWjmg lOgAoLc4/mHbLfEWkHUkJhDgJRtu3cAb =MuGK -----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
