Re: docklets + usability

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Gediminas Paulauskas <menesis delfi lt> writes:
> 
> It works the same way (i.e. doesn't work) with metacity too :( It's very bad
> that you still can't  use docklets. People create applets and it's the wrong
> thing! There are lots of problems with gnomeicu being an app and an applet at
> the same time, and all that the applet does is just show status....
> 
> KDE apps use docklets quite often and they work well. If we want to
> interoperate with KDE we need to provide a status dock for KDE apps to work,
> and GAIM, XMMS etc. have docklets too...
> 

If someone would write down a spec on how the docklets work and what
the WM has to do, then I would be happy to implement it and fix
it. But no one should be using some weird undocumented spec and
expecting it to work, it's just broken insanity.

If there's a spec written down, why isn't it on freedesktop.org?
Someone send it to me. If the window manager is involved why isn't it
posted to wm-spec-list gnome org?

If there's no spec, then STOP using the damn feature in applications,
until someone writes one. There is no way we can have this feature
without a spec. End of story.

If so many people are using it, then someone MUST understand how it
works; why are they all too lazy to write it down?

</rant>

Havoc