Why and why.

[Luke L]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 3:15 PM, George Farris <farrisg at cc.mala.bc.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 20:58 +0200, Remco wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 20:45, Chandru <chandru.in at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > It is proposed that from 11.04 the notification area (which allows actions
>> > like opening the window with single click and pausing with middle click)
>> > will be replaced entirely with indicator applet .  So just get used to
>> > clicking more if you continue to use Ubuntu.
>>
>> Wait just a bit. The problem is that the notification area is a poor
>> replacement of the window list. Instead of big strips with an icon and
>> a title, it's just a tiny icon. And that icon even has arbitrary
>> behavior. The idea is to get rid of the notification area *and* to
>> reintroduce the removed features in the window list, application
>> indicator, or any other place where it is actually appropriate.
>
> Well then IMHO it should probably have been left at the old behavior
> until it was ready.  Why totally mess people up with something they have
> been doing for "years"?  It seems an odd and very broken decision
> process.  Just sayin!
>
> Cheers
>
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The indicator applet in the long term is trying to eliminate
inconsistencies that cause frustration such as George's. I'm not sold
on every single aspect of it, but overall, I appreciate their concept.

This is an open source ecosystem where new ideas and software should
be pushed forward, and may the best win! Ubuntu only has a
responsibility to the users to the extent that they'll lose users with
bad decisions.

George, they don't do a drop-in replacement for
notification->indicator applet because the system needs to be
user-tested, and phased in to get more applications on board and using
it.

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Luke L.