notification area is/will be obsolete

[zpletan]

I am reading the Ubuntu Manual v. 788 (as part of the "Show us ya bugs" initiative), and in Chapter 2, on pp. 23-24, I believe I have discovered an incorrect information bug. The Manual makes frequent mention of the notification area here; however, the notification area is supposed to be going away by Maverick, and is currently on end-of-life/end-of-support, as it were, in Lucid. This (if it is determined a problem) should be changed to application indicators.

[Kevin Godby (godbyk)]

We'll adjust this in the Maverick release. For Lucid, there's still a notification area.

[Jason Cook (jasoncook599)]

A list of changes for Maverick has been made at http://typewith.me/h2Y9bitvCI. I have added this bug to the list.

[Ryan Macnish (nisshh)]

The notification area is deprecated in favour of the indicator applets now, but is not officially gone until Natty Narhwal (11.04).

[Benjamin Humphrey (humphreybc)]

I believe the notification area is still being called the notification area, just the behaviour is changing. To differentiate between old and new behaviour, developers have given the new system a name "application indicators."

To the end user, it's still an area for notifications - therefore, notification area. Therefore, I think the text is okay.

[Benjamin Humphrey (humphreybc)]

Updated a few things here and there.