gnome system tray lost

[Ja'far Railton]

On 2/14/06, Yuki Cuss <celtic at sairyx.org> wrote:
> Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 11:52 +0300, Ja'far Railton wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Does anyone else think "notification area" is a needlessly strange
> >>name for a system tray?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Huuu, maybe the fact that English is not my native language has
> >something to do with it (or maybe it's just personal taste), but I find
> >"notification area" a lot clearer to understand than "system tray",
> >actually !
> >
> >--
> >Vince
> >
> >
>
> I am inclined to agree; `system tray' is what we've all been brought up
> saying, but it's just that way possibly because of windows. When you
> *think* about it, in what way is it a `tray' for the `system'? It's an
> area where we're notified of things. It works.
>
>  - Yuki.
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Fair enough.

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Ja'far ibn Richard Railton