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[Scott Ritchie <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I like where you're going, but what do we do about interoperability?

There's a hint in your post that we'll simply leave apps broken, stick 
up our middle fingers, and tempt developers with our millions of users. 
 That may work for open source projects in our repository, but we need 
to accept the reality that there will be programs that don't conform.

The most obvious example is any software originally written for Windows 
and running in Wine.  Wine uses XEmbed to create its own systray, and 
the most reasonable place to put Wine's system tray is the notification 
area.

Any design that breaks this completely would be a regression for the 40% 
of our users that run Wine apps.  So let's not break it.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie

On 04/21/2010 01:44 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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> Hi folks
>
> 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/>
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> 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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