Re: [Ayatana] Farewell to the notification area

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Jeremy Nickurak wrote on 21/04/10 21:58:
> 
> AFAIK, this is a major deviation from what upstream and other
> distributions are doing, even larger than that of notify-osd.

We'll be working as closely as possible with the developers of all those
applications that currently use the notification area. It's
counterproductive for us to be carrying lots of patches in Ubuntu.

> Is there any sign of uptake of the indicator suite of protocols
> upstream or in any other distributions? Why or why not? Gnome-shell
> certainly seems to be going a different direction, and the
> repurcussions of that have seen scarce discussion here..

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/RoadmapTwoThirtyOne?highlight=application+indicators

>...
> Any sign of the indicator suite of protocols seeing uptake at
> somewhere vendor-neutral, like freedesktop.org?
>...

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2010-February/msg00036.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2009-December/011179.html

There's been some interesting discussion in both places, but people seem
to be waiting for us to demonstrate that it works. So, here we are.

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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