On 18/05/10 16:54, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > So is there any reason the messaging menu couldn't be a regular > indicator? My gut says it should probably be a system indicator, but > I'd really really want this to fall-back into the notification area > anyways. It would be possible to do that. But it would be quite a lot of work, and would only really be relevant for Gnome 2.x. We don't know where GNOME Shell will go with indicators: they rejected the current version of Ayatana indicators on the grounds that they intend to implement something different. It's unusual to reject code for vapour, but there you go :-) Perhaps in future, when the APIs have settled, the GNOME Shell team will be more open to it. Alternatively, since GNOME itself needs a netbook UI as well, we see many projects supporting the Ayatana indicators directly regardless of GNOME Shell's decisions: detecting when they are available and using them appropriately. > If the messaging menu, and other indicator features are to be > supported by upstream, I believe we need to reduce the barrier of > adoption. If gnome-shell, kde, xfce, and every other random > window-manager/desktop-environment (which almost universally support > the notification spec) could have all the same indicators and features > that the ubuntu offers, without having to adopt/implement a new > applet/protocol, we'll have a much better chance of getting the > community at large on board. Both Kubuntu and Ubuntu will have the messaging menu for the foreseeable future. We *are* working with KDE on App Indicators and aiming to have broad adoption for those, as well as features like Window Indicators and the key Category Indicators (sound, messaging etc). We could not be more open to collaboration: we've approached key individuals and organisations and charted a clear path for each of these pieces, we've also published the code under appropriate licenses of course, and mapped out the timeframes to API stability. Key elements of the API's are being debated and published as FreeDesktop.org standards. Mark
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