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[Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 11:57 -0600, Jeremy Nickurak wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 05:17, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
>         The apps should always degrade to older / alternative
>         behaviours. It's a
>         bug if they don't, and I'm sorry if the Empathy case was badly
>         handled,
>         we should patch things up with upstream :-)
>         
>         If the category indicator (sound indicator in this case) is
>         not present,
>         then AppIndicators or the SysTray (till 11.04 on Ubuntu) are
>         available
>         and should be used.
>         
> I thought this meant that if the indicator applet wasn't present, the
> various indicators would show up via the notification-area,
> transparent fall-back style. You'd get a messaging menu, a rhythmbox
> indicator, a volume-control indicator, all in the notification tray.
> 
> Any reason not to do it this way, technical or design-wise? It seems
> like that would be a good way to encourage upstream adoption in
> particular... desktops that don't want to go full-hog into the
> indicator desktop experience can wade in slowly: "Here's a library
> that makes it easy to put stuff into the notification tray, with a
> consistent UI. Oh, and if you happen to have a more advanced
> implementation, it can do something cooler, but through precisely the
> same protocol!"

With Application Indicators we manage the fallback into the notification
area by default, so application developers don't need to worry about
that in most cases.  They can change the behavior of that fallback if
they wish.

        --Ted

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