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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Scott Ritchie wrote on 15/06/10 04:29:
>
> On 06/14/2010 12:31 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
>...
>> 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.
>
> I'm worried that if we still have empty space in the top panel and then
> present a window not in the top panel users will immediately wonder why
> the window isn't just embedded in the panel like it used to be (and is
> on Windows.)
>
> A window also has the normal inconveniences: to interact with it it
> must first be focused on.  It will also be very small (holding only a
> single icon of content in most cases, too small for window controls).
>
> A window also means we need to worry about what to title it in the
> bottom bar - for a user who doesn't even know they're running Wine,
> spawning a "Wine System Tray" in the background and on the bottom is
> likely to be missed.  Populating an item in the bottom bar also means
> we'll have less space available for other apps - In fact I'm reasonably
> certain we waste less space in the top panel than the bottom panel by
> just using the system tray icons.
>
> Basically, there's a reason Wine stopped using the systray window.
>...

Fair enough. I've now specified that the Unity menu bar should have a
notification area only for Wine and Java applications that don't know
any better. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MenuBar#notification-area>

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