[Panel-devel] Systray (was Re: Drag'n'drop everything)

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 17 August 2005 10:49, Vince Negri wrote:
> Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 August 2005 09:55, Georges A.K. wrote:
> traditional systray as to eliminate culture shock. The user, though,
> could take the mini-interface area and put it somewhere else on the
> screen if he/she wished.

i'm still looking for a compelling reason for this sort of arrange-ability 
other than "because we can".

> If the notification area is distinct from the mini-interface area, and
> (as Georges suggested in a later email) the notification icons only
> appear when they are notifying, then the logical next step is to hide
> the notification area altogether when no-one is notifying.

many notification related icons need to be shown all the time. think of kmail 
for instance. having a "0 messages" icon is actually useful.

some notification related icons also have a "mini-interface" and i don't think 
this is a bad thing. the kind of live in both worlds and users don't seem to 
really have a problem with this.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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