Op donderdag 04-10-2007 om 21:33 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Tristan Wibberley: > I think the difference between launcher, applet, and status notification > needs to be more obvious and some sanitising wouldn't go amiss. > > For example, GAIM uses a status notification icon to access the > application whilst it's running - so I can't move it anywhere unless I > move all my notifications. It also doesn't make sense for the icon to be > something that shows after going to Applications->Internet->Gaim... > rather Gaim should just be an applet. The Evolution contact list could > offer to give you Gaim (from an address card with a handle on a > supported service) as well as gnome-open when opening an irc: uri, etc.
There was a telepathy applet like that (but it got replaced by empathy's status icon). > Similarly for Tomboy. Why does the use case for an adhoc note-keeper > involve starting a search program/recently used list before I can just > add a damned note ? Tomboy should be a launcher or applet (doesn't much > matter which in this case since it isn't doing anything between clicks > and keypresses). That's why I use the Tomboy panel applet. :) > It would be nice to stick the Evolution contact list on as a launcher by > default too. I think deskbar-applet provides this? -- Jan Claeys -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
