Just to give my two cents on the subject: I'm in favour of keeping the notification icon for a simple reason. Someone (I don't remember if Mark or someone else) mentioned, from what I got, that the notification area has been used by applications, and to avoid confusion we should remove it from there. So, the problem is not the area itself, it's the applications! The notification area is there to give notifications, if the applications are using it too much then (using this argument) the applications should be using something else, not the notifications. This is the same as changing your address because you are receiving too much junk mail.
My suggestion (and I know this isn't something to be decided in a couple of days) is to keep two areas, one for applications that run in background and want to hide from the window list, like pidgin, network manager, skype, power manager, bittorrent, etc. (citing the list in my desktop right now), and another area for notifications, like updates, new mail, or whatever else needs my attention at some point in the near future (I liked the "patient notifications" mentioned before). If someone wants to keep both together, just put both areas in the same place. But I'm in favour of an option to keep the notification icon, so that everyone can choose the behaviour. If you think usability dictates the use of a pop-under window, keep this option default, but I'm used to that, as is a lot of people around, and I'd love to keep it there. And this is the behaviour that people migrating from some other major OSs are used to. Well, that's my opinion. I didn't read all the two hundred and something comments on the subject (I over-read the eighty first and been following the last couple of days), but I think this could be considered. -- Jonatan Schroeder, MSc. Teaching Assistant, PhD Student UBC - Computer Science jona...@cs.ubc.ca - http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~jonatan "The box said: Requires MS Windows or better, then I installed GNU/Linux!" -- [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332945 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
