No indicator message in Message Indicator

[Aurélien Gâteau]

Celeste Lyn Paul wrote:
> 2010/2/12 Aurélien Gâteau <aurelien.gateau at canonical.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been working a bit on the Message Indicator (MI) Plasma applet
>> lately.
>>
>> I changed its behavior a bit: the applet is no longer disabled when no
>> MI-enabled application is running. Instead, clicking on it show a
> 
> Remind me again why it is visible if there are no MI-enabled
> applications running? Can it be hidden/invisible until an application
> is running?

Because if it's invisible it's going to be odd when you add the widget
to a panel (or to the desktop) and it just disappear. It would also make
it hard to remove it if you can't see it.

This is mitigated by the fact that one can now embed applets in the
systemtray applet, but if you want to run the MI outside of the
systemtray it is still a problem.

Aurélien