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Re: Why are the MeMenu and the messaging applet two separate things?

 

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David Prieto wrote on 02/11/10 07:39:
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> I originally sent this as a question for Askubuntu, but got no reply:
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> http://askubuntu.com/questions/10688/why-are-the-memenu-and-the-messaging-applet-two-separate-things
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> "When I look at them, their functionality seems to overlap so much that
> they could almost be merged:
>...

Only because no-one has done the design work necessary to work out how
to merge them. Would you like to have a go?

Possibly the hardest part is working out how to communicate IM status
and new-messages status simultaneously. But there are other layout
issues to consider, too.

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