<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Chandru <span dir="ltr"><<a href="http://chandru.in">chandru.in</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
If notification area is going to be removed as mentioned in this post, <a href="http://design.canonical.com/2010/04/notification-area/" target="_blank">http://design.canonical.com/2010/04/notification-area/</a>, how will applications which do not target Ubuntu alone and are not maintained by Ubuntu developers work?<div>
<br></div><div>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?</div>
<br></blockquote><div> </div></div>Because they want the application to be properly integrated with the OS ?<br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br><br>Best regards,<br>
<br>-- <br>João Luís Marques Pinto<br>GetDeb Team Leader<br><a href="http://www.getdeb.net">http://www.getdeb.net</a><br><a href="http://blog.getdeb.net">http://blog.getdeb.net</a><br>