On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 15:19 +0200, Aurélien Naldi wrote: > As far as I know, libnotify supports only notifications (and does it > well). They can vanish after a while or require acknowledgement, but > they can not be truly persistent. The notification area was used both > for such notifications and to provide a way to interact with > "background" applications.
The reason for this, historically, is that it's an XDG standard while panel applets never have been, FWIW. > I do like the notification part in gnome-shell (beside the integrated > chat stealing focus, but all it needs is tweaking), I was talking > about the "interact with background application" part: I thought > gnome-shell also had an API for this as the indicators proposed by > canonical have been rejected. From a user point of view, the system > area in gnome-shell is very similar. What I do not know is wether it > is it limited to the shell and extensions, or if any application can > add something as well. It's limited to the Shell (and extensions), by design. The Shell developers want the Shell interface to be consistent, not vary between users, distros and apps. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
