Removal of notification area

[Luke L]

I'm kind of surprised no API forwarding legacy notification area icons
to the 'application indicator' is being discussed. I guess that would
defeat the purpose of the app indicator. I hope Ubuntu gets the
appindicator code into GNOME asap.

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:33 AM, Joao Pinto <joao.pinto at getdeb.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Chandru <chandru.in at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> If notification area is going to be removed as mentioned in this
>> post, http://design.canonical.com/2010/04/notification-area/, how will
>> applications which do not target Ubuntu alone and are not maintained by
>> Ubuntu developers work?
>> For example, Skype currently places its icon on the notification area.
>>  There are also a couple of open-source applications (Exaile for example)
>> which use the notification area.  Given the fact that these are written for
>> Linux in general and don't target just Ubuntu, why would they adopt the
>> Ubuntu way of placing icons, when it won't work on any other distribution?
>
>
> Because they want the application to be properly integrated with the OS ?
> Developers don't need to replace the existing notification area code, they
> just need to add support for the integration menus so that will work where
> such facility is available.
>
> I am not sure there will be enough interest/manpower to extender all the
> current Ubuntu packages to this, most likely the notification are will be an
> optional component if you need applications which us it.
>
> Best regards,
>
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Luke L.