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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Scott Ritchie wrote on 23/04/10 06:48:
> 
> 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.
>...

You mentioned at UDS that before Wine began inserting notification area
items into the Gnome notification area, it put them in a separate
window. I suggest that it return to doing that. Java applications will
be in the same situation.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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