Day: Status Icons and GNOME

Posted Sep 1, 2017 22:12 UTC (Fri) by adam820 (subscriber, #101353)
Parent article: Day: Status Icons and GNOME

Yep, there are the chorus heads of "But-but-but they removed a thing!". However, as a GNOME3 daily driver, I can honestly say I've never given the status tray much of a look in the last few years, if ever. It could disappear tomorrow and I wouldn't notice. And for those that do use it, there are the existing extensions that re-enable the status bar if you want it, though based on the blog post it seems the general idea is to communicate with upstreams and migrate them away from using trayicons and move to using native DE integration where possible. So in the end, win/win for everyone. I don't see the big deal other than something to complain about, from people who probably don't even use G3 anyway.

Day: Status Icons and GNOME

Posted Sep 2, 2017 0:09 UTC (Sat) by hp (guest, #5220) [Link]

Agreed. I sometimes open the little bottom tray accidentally but couldn't even tell you what's in there!

Day: Status Icons and GNOME

Posted Sep 2, 2017 8:24 UTC (Sat) by Sylos (guest, #109852) [Link] (1 responses)

That's a reason for it not necessarily being so bad that they do this, it's not a reason in favor of them doing this. While it might not affect you, this change makes many applications completely inaccessible.

Day: Status Icons and GNOME

Posted Sep 2, 2017 16:00 UTC (Sat) by adam820 (subscriber, #101353) [Link]

The comment above still stands. It doesn't affect me, no; it also doesn't seem to affect a lot of daily GNOME3 users. So, perhaps you're in the minority of people it would affect. And that's a little irritating, I'm sure, but it also mentions they're working with upstream applications. So maybe leave a comment on the blog post asking about whatever applications you're concerned with and find out if they're being addressed.

Day: Status Icons and GNOME

Posted Sep 2, 2017 22:00 UTC (Sat) by luto (guest, #39314) [Link]

The status tray (back when it worked well or with TopIcons) is by far my favorite UI for instant messages. A notification can appear in the tray telling me that there's an IM, but it's not disruptive to my workflow and it stays there until I deal with it. The current GNOME 3 status tray fails here because I won't ever notice the IM. The fancy "notifications" fail as well because they're way too disruptive.