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[Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx>]

Le mardi 11 mai 2010 à 22:31 -0500, Jonathan Blackhall a écrit :
> With the announcement of the Sound Indicator, I see that the functions
> of the current Rhythmbox IA and Banshee IA will essentially be
> available via this new Sound IA.  Will the Rhythmbox and Banshee IA's
> be removed when this is in effect?  Otherwise I feel like there will
> be a lot of overlap in function between these individual applets and
> the sound applet.

That's not necessarily a bad thing in the short term. Regardless of
how awesome you are convinced you new idea are, I think it's
important to make a smooth transition and, at least for a while,
allow easy reversal to old behavior to avoid (quoting Martin Owens)
fanning the flames of resistance to change.

For example, I personally believe that the fact that AppIndicators
gracefully degrade to the notification area was a major step in
the long and winding road of making them universally used upstream.

On the opposite side, aggressively patching Empathy and not doing
any kind of graceful degradation when the messaging menu is not
present (and/or notify-osd is uninstalled in favor of the old
notification-daemon) was a major step in irritating some Empathy
users *and* developers and making sure they never care about
trying the messaging menu, notify-osd or even Ubuntu again.

So I vote for keeping the IA's and making them optional. Actually,
they are *already* optional, so no real work needed.

Ayatana developers should keep in mind that some people will be
upgrading from systems *without the indicator-applet*, and not
caring about those people is not good PR:

http://blogs.gnome.org/xclaesse/2010/04/01/ubuntu-lucid-indicate/
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/552543