Unity For Fedora (As in OpenSUSE or Arch)

[Simo Sorce]

On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 17:00 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On 2012-02-01 11:39, Florian Müllner wrote:
> 
> > Because the "integrated experience" means that there is a fixed set 
> > of
> > system items with a defined order. Extensions can be used to "hack" 
> > the
> > intended experience (which includes adding "non-official" icons in 
> > the
> > top bar), but it's nothing we want normal applications to do.
> > Applications are encouraged to interact with the message tray (== the
> > autohiding bottom panel) via freedesktop notifications (yay,
> > cross-desktop! ;-)
> 
> Yay cross-desktop maybe, but still a freaking disaster from a UI point 
> of view, and the only thing I really dislike about GNOME 3 (when I was 
> forced to drop to Xfce for a couple of days last week, the old-school 
> notifications were the only things I preferred). That sometimes-hidden, 
> erratically-triggered notification area *never* seems to do what I 
> actually want it to do. It shows up when I don't want it, it doesn't 
> show up when there's something on it I probably actually needed to see, 
> the icons on it fly around like space invaders and take two or hree 
> clicks to get rid of, transmission 'torrent completed' notifications 
> stack to the moon and back...it's just not nice.
> 
> I realize this isn't a very constructive mail, and the point has been 
> raised before, but I'm hoping at some point the sheer weight of 
> complaints will cause someone more creative than myself to actually come 
> up with a notification system for GNOME 3 which satisfies the GNOME 
> design team and *also* does not suck.

Amen!

The notification area is my biggest grief with gnome-shell as well,
sadly.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York