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[Jeremy Nickurak <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 07:11, <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I agree that it makes sense for a gnome-panel desktop to have consistency
> in things that "should" hide away in the messaging menu.
>
> But with unity, is it still useful to have apps that hide from the windows
> list as it's now a launcher that can gracefully handle a lot of data without
> inducing visual clutter?
>
If you want indicators to continue to be adopted upstream, the solution to
problem with them can't be "Just use our desktop environment." It's bad
enough these don't work with gnome-shell (yet, I'm still hoping somebody's
working on that).

The fact that an evolution window has to be open somewhere for you to get
mail notifications to work is a problem that keeps getting reported by users
frequently.

Here's my take on it:

Message notifications tell me when I need to have my messages open. When I'm
done, I close my messaging app (behind the scenes, it's getting hidden).
When I get another notification, I open my messaging app again (either by
running it in the menu, or by selecting the message in the messaging menu).

Email notifications tell me when I need to have my email open. When I'm
done, I close my email app (which should NOT stop me from getting email
notifications). When I get another notification (which I don't right now,
because the previous step broke them), I open my email app again (either by
running it in the menu, or by selecting the message in the messaging menu).

This remains a glaring inconsistency, and to date is still the most annoying
thing about the messaging menu to me.

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