On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 12:00 +0100, George Farris wrote: > > Wait just a bit. The problem is that the notification area is a poor > > replacement of the window list. Instead of big strips with an icon and > > a title, it's just a tiny icon. And that icon even has arbitrary > > behavior. The idea is to get rid of the notification area *and* to > > reintroduce the removed features in the window list, application > > indicator, or any other place where it is actually appropriate. > > Well then IMHO it should probably have been left at the old behavior > until it was ready. Why totally mess people up with something they have > been doing for "years"? It seems an odd and very broken decision > process. Just sayin!
Ubuntu does things by a process of evolution, not revolution. If they'd not introduced Indicator Applet until it was a finished design, then it would have probably been incredibly buggy and unusable for everyone except the developer. The way it's been done has ensured that bugs get fixed the whole while by community testing. Indicator Applet is more consistent and less broken than the Notification Area. With the NA, for every new program you have to learn exactly how it treats its NA icon; what middle-clicks do, what right-clicks do, what left-clicks do. Indicator Applet icons are at least easier to learn as all their options are exposed through a left-click. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
