Comment 8 for bug 319152
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| Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #8 |
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Hey Walter,
Here's the link :
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Anyway, don't you find your sentence a bit odd : "the tray icon only lives in the Gnome notification area". Repeat after me : notification area ;-)
As your are pointing out, developing an applet is harder and that's why people use the tray. This is really bad because we are decreasing user experience and HMI quality for the sake of lazyness. This is *really bad* ! The solution is of course to fix the gnome-panel to get rid of this awful bonobo stuffs.
Because I'm developping for users and not to make the job easy, I will not accept code that add a tray icon, even optionnaly.
If we have a plugin system, it would be different. A tray plugin would be perfect because it would mean that the tray code is completely independant.
I should really take the time to exlain this issue more on my blog because I understand it's a bit unusual. But generally, people agree with the idea if I have the time to explain the details and the reasons.