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[Jeremy Nickurak <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

AFAIK, only ubuntu's branches of these environments have messaging menu
support. Have they seen any uptake upstream? Are there upstream applications
using the messaging menu?

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:16, Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 09:54 -0600, Jeremy Nickurak wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
> The only desktop you listed that doesn't have support for the messaging
> menu directly is GNOME Shell.  I don't see a reason to implement a
> notification area fallback just for that.
>         --Ted
>
>


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