Docky should support a notification area

[aloctavodia]

 It should be nice to use only docky and completely forget about gnome-panel. But at this moment notification area, network manager and a clock aren´t implemented at docky, so if you use docky you must keep using gnome-panel.

[Γουργιώτης Γιώργος (aka Gourgi) (gourgi)]

a notification area would be cool for sure

[Daniel Schierbeck (dasch)]

Would it be possible to support existing GNOME applets? Creating a new applet API doesn't seem to have worked out that well for AWN...

[Cyberkilla (cyberkilla04uk-deactivatedaccount)]

Gnome-panel applets are designed for an entirely different layout/UI concept.

Hardly any of them would look nice on the dock. Notification area doesn't drop into multiple rows, so you'd end up with a long list of blurred, over-sized tray icons - plus the occasional one that doesn't handle transparency properly (mono apps like Banshee) and others that don't provide the right icons, so they stay ~16x16.

Potential for an absolute mess in most cases. This means that most GNOME Applets for Docky would have to be built with Docky in mind, thereby defeating the purpose of implementing an existing applet architecture.

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In response to the actual bug report:
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I agree that some sort of notification area docklet, would be useful. It would remove the need for Gnome Panel in most cases. However, I recognise that the event handling and context menus most likely agony to replicate; it's not just a case of enumerating a few icons and displaying them in an aesthetically pleasing way.

[Sandy Armstrong (sanfordarmstrong)]

I think this is a duplicate of bug #391056. Although this bug is the older one, most of its comments are not about the topic at hand (notification area support), so I'd suggest keeping the more coherent bug. :-)