Kurt, What Sergey means is having apps, like Audience (and I think Pantheon-Greeter as well), which have a fullscreen mode (which hides wingpanel), which can still display indicators that are essential to them.
So for the video-player Audience it is handy to still provide access to the sound indicator such that it can be used for adjusting the volume. Kind regards, Pim Vullers On 08/26/2013 01:22 PM, Kurt Smolderen wrote: > > Sergey, > > What do you mean by 'embedding indictors into apps'? Does it mean one > installs for example Noise and the soundindicator is installed as well > but not as a separate package? > > If that's the case, what if a user wants to install another music player > which makes use of the sound indicator? Additionally, how difficult will > it be/ what effort will it take to backport upstream changes made to for > example the sound indicator to the particular apps? > > Regards > Kurt > > On 26-08-13 11:04, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> Voldyman showed off a cool proof of concept for libpeas-based plugs >> yesterday, but it's not necessarily the best architecture if we choose >> to embed indicators into apps (e.g. sound indicator in Audience). I'd >> like to talk to designers first and see what are the use cases for >> this feature, and if there's a sufficient number of indicators that >> should be embedded. Otherwise we could use the libpeas-based >> architecture and simply provide minimal D-bus interfaces to indicators >> like Sound. >> >> -- >> Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff >> OS architect @ elementary >> >> > > > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
