Default Desktop Experience for 11.04

[Scott Kitterman]

On Thursday, April 21, 2011 12:04:31 PM Clint Byrum wrote:
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> I don't think its all that arrogant to say "these screw up the UX,
> so we have disabled them. We're here to help you get that fixed."
...

Except that's not what we're saying.  We're saying these screw up Ubuntu (and 
here I do mean Ubuntu the desktop, not the entire project as at least some 
other Ubuntu flavors work fine) UX because we don't support broader standards, 
we have our own.

I think that's exactly arrogant.  

The only solution that's viable in the long run is to make it so this 
functionality is not Ubuntu specific.  There are parts of what make up 
appindicators that are not controversial.  One of the things that I learned 
from the extensive recent public discussions on this topic re Gnome upstream 
and Ubuntu is that apparently the basic new systray protocol originally 
developed by KDE that's used as a base for the appindicator work is non-
controversial in Gnome, just lacking someone to do the work.

That isn't all that's needed to get to appindicators, but it's a start.  So my 
suggestion would be to pour some of the effort that is going into patching 
however many gtk/gnome apps there are that use the notification area into 
starting to get this work upstream instead.

AIUI Gnome 3.0 is released now, so it's not a bad time to focus on this.

Scott K