On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 21:03 -0500, Dan Winship wrote: > On 01/13/2010 02:52 PM, Ted Gould wrote: > > Basically our goal is to clean up the current systray and provide a > > consistent means of interacting with applications that choose to put > > items in there. This means choosing a middle ground where we provide > > enough flexibility for applications to do something interesting while > > not allowing them to go crazy. The middle ground we chose is a menu. > > What are you planning to do with NetworkManager? That's currently the > go-craziest of the notification icons, but it's generally pretty *good* > crazy and it would be hard to implement that functionality with a plain > text-only menu. > > (And what about the volume indicator? Are you just swapping that back to > being an applet?) We don't plan on having everything ported for Lucid, that'd be insane on more than one level. We plan on having the notification area still in the panel for Lucid so that both protocols could be used. I believe that KDE is supporting both for a while as well. Long term, we'd like to be able to support everything that NetworkManager does. Honestly, I'd like to see those features get more available for other apps as I think there's some really good ideas in the NetworkManager menu. First round, we're only supporting the basic menu items in GTK: check, radio and image. I'm pretty busy with just that :) I forgot to mention it in my original mail, but we did set up a mailing list [1] to discuss the menuing issues. I imagine we'll be discussing a next set of menuitems to implement there shortly. --Ted [1] https://launchpad.net/~dbusmenu-list
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