I must say that I like this approach the best out of all the possibilities proposed so far. I was leaning towards something along these lines myself but I couldn't have said it so eloquently. Thanks, Calum! --Jason On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 06:55, Calum Benson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 21:26, iain wrote: > > > Might be nice if it's automatically added or at least pops up a dialog > > saying "This program wants to add an icon to the panel notification area > > which you don't have on your panel. Would you like to add it now? [Yes, > > add the panel notification area] [NO PISS OFF AND NEVER TELL ME AGAIN]" > > In our attempt to stamp out all Yes / No / Piss Off alerts, perhaps it > would be better if the first app that required it added the Notification > Area as you said, since that's what most users probably want. > > Then if you subsequently removed it from your panel manually, it could > set some flag in GConf to let other apps know not to try adding it > again. Adding the Notification Area again manually (assuming you can do > so) would clear the flag again, and so on ad infinitum... > > Cheeri, > Calum. -- Jason A. Pfeil pfeil 10East com Senior Open Systems Engineer http://www.10East.com 10East, Inc. (904)220-DOCS
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