On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 23:52, Jeremy Nickurak
<jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes, the notification area only allows for windows to exist, pretty much
in vacuum. So there is no way for them to communicate amongst each
other to create something like a menu bar. There are other issues with
the notification area spec, but that's one of the key ones.
To be clear, I'm not suggesting that individual libindicate applications create notification icons. I'm suggesting that the indicator applet itself should be a notification icon.
Try as I might, the only limitation I can think of for the indicator applet itself being a notification-tray element is that the notification tray doesn't allow the user to decide precisely where in the tray the indicator would show up, and that it would neccesarily have to be at the same location on the panel as the rest of the notification icons.
But if that sacrifice let the indicator applet exist as a reference implementation for gnome, kde, xfce, and any other desktop environment that supported the baseline notification standard, and consequently allowed anyone with that minimal level of support to get support for everything the indicator protocol specifies, it sounds like a net win to me.