On jue, 2012-02-02 at 00:44 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> So the argument that you're refusing to implement a cross-desktop > >> protocol in order to ban random applications from adding themselves to > >> the panel is bogus. > > > > Nobody said that. > > Florian Müllner did: Not really. We didn't implement it because: - the spec is bad - it is a bad fit for the experience we want > | You are right about requiring a Javascript extension to add items to the > | top panel, but you are wrong about the reasoning - it is not because the > | "system tray looked out of place" (which it does, but it is nevertheless > | still supported in the message tray), but rather because the top panel > | is considered "system space", which means that we do not want random > | applications to add anything to it. Or in other words: there is no "system tray" in the top bar. There are exactly two places applications can hook into: the application menu and the message tray. Extensions may be used to "hack" the designed user experience, which includes adding stuff to the top bar. Florian -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
