Re: [Ayatana] Farewell to the notification area

[Jeremy Nickurak <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

AFAIK, this is a major deviation from what upstream and other
distributions are doing, even larger than that of notify-osd.

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..

If upstream and/or other distributions aren't on board with this,
what's the route for backwards-compatability, and interoperation with
other projects?

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

I for one feel like this sort of decision is Canonical getting quite a
bit further ahead of itself, when there's a lot of unanswered
questions about tying this to the greater FOSS operating system
community.

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 14:44, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi folks
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> On the new Canonical Design site, we've just posted an overview of our
> plan to retire the notification area (a.k.a. "system tray") from Ubuntu
> by 11.04. <http://design.canonical.com/2010/04/notification-area/>
>
> Mark S. has posted an architectural overview on his site too.
> <http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/347>
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> Your feedback is welcome on this mailing list (or, if you prefer, on
> either of those Web pages). Does the plan make sense? Or are we
> completely off our rocker? Is there anything we've missed? Do you have
> suggestions on how we can make the transition smoother?
>
> Thanks
> - --
> Matthew Paul Thomas
> http://mpt.net.nz/
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