Re: [Ayatana] General questions about indicators

[Marcelo Hashimoto <marcelo.hashimoto@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Ted! Thanks again, almost there... I think there
are only a couple of doubts left.

> No.  Libindicate is n:n really.  It is just about counting messages and
> only provides a slight nod to dbusmenu in that applications that are
> using libindicate can also (not required) provide menu items for extra
> actions.  They're different in that the different messaging sources for
> instance can't be in a hierarchy and are more closely associated to
> times and counts (messaging focused).

> I think the better way to distinguish would be that libindicate is used
> to put entries inside the messaging menu, while libappindicator is for
> the application having its own menu outside of the messaging menu.

Okay, those two responses got me a little confused...
is libindicate made for communicating only with the
messaging menu or any specific indicator? Come to
think of it, I did peek at libindicate-doc (whose
existence I only realized recently), and there were
some MessageMenu-specific sentences there...

> Sure, I'm not defending the hardcoding or saying it's perfect.  It just
> hasn't been a requirement yet :)  Obviously with
> indicator-applet-complete it is a bigger issue, but that isn't really
> anywhere by default, I don't think most people know about it yet.

> I've been trying to put a bunch of this common code into libindicator
> precisely for this reason.  In general, I don't consider libindicator
> API stable as it's more for making the indicator development easy and
> fast so it changes as we need it to.  I know everyone who's using it
> today and I tell them :)

> Great, well drop me or the list an e-mail when you get something
> together I'd hate to do something like remove a feature that I thought
> nobody was using and you were depending on because I didn't know 

Ok, I'm happy enough to know that the hardcoding
is not by design. :) We'll try to work closely
with you and report our experiences with the
libraries.

And I was almost forgetting... are there any plans
for Mono bindings to libindicate?

Regards,
Marcelo