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Re: [Ayatana] Clock Menu Redesign [was: Evolution && is: progress]



On 24/05/10 18:32, Vishnoo wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 13:47 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
>   
>> On 21/05/10 18:47, Frederik Nnaji wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi Nicholas ;)
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 18:01, Nicholas Ipsen <NCLI@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> I think it would be nice to include a weather indicator, maybe to the left
>>>> of the Clock? I certainly appreciate this functionality in the current Gnome
>>>> Clock Applet, but it would make sense to me to have them as seperate
>>>> indicators.
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>> I'd pass on this one. Desktop widgets are better for ad hoc information
>> presentation. We don't have a &great& desktop widget framework (Yahoo is
>> closed, Google is clunky at the moment, the rest are too hokey)
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>     
> We do have the weather-report applet , probably needs to be ported to
> the indicators.
> Or is that not allowed in the indicator-applet either?
>   

Sure, so it's an optional install. Personally, I think it's a bad
approach, but AppIndicators are open, if someone wants to whack this
into the panel that way, so be it.

Mark

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