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Universal notification icon in system tray?Universal notification icon in system tray?Posted Mar 5, 2009 14:49 UTC (Thu) by sergey (guest, #31763)In reply to: Universal notification icon in system tray? by fmyhr Parent article: Ubuntu debates usability changes
How would this work with separate icons for battery and wireless link that are usually present in
a notification area? If they "delegate" their notification to yet another icon it'd probably be confusing.
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Universal notification icon in system tray? Posted Mar 5, 2009 15:14 UTC (Thu) by fmyhr (subscriber, #14803) [Link]
Good point -- there are notifications the user wants to see at a glance, without having to click an icon and navigate its sub-menus.
One way this could be handled is to add another option that appears when you right-click on a notification: "add icon to systray". That would bring up a configuration window with:
Right-clicking on the new app/driver-specific systray notification icon would give you an option "move to universal notification icon" that would undo the steps above.
Probably most distros would ship with a standard configuration that would have separate icons for things like battery and wireless. And if the user didn't like those they could easily get them out of their systray and into the universal notification icon.
Universal notification icon in system tray? Posted Mar 7, 2009 10:48 UTC (Sat) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
Well, basically this is what plasma is doing already. All notifications go
through the central notification system (embedded in the systemtray but can be had separately as well, yay for modularity). There are no daemons or apps in the systemtray for battery usage or network management, even though you can have a plasmoid taking care of those. Even if you use these plasmoids (be it on a panel or desktop), notifications go through the notification plasmoid.
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