From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: BlueZ users <bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] GNOME bluez applet request
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:55:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1159116905.28425.2.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1159114194.5088.44.camel@localhost>
Hi Reinout,
> As part of the Bluetooth support in Mandriva Linux 2007, which will be
> released shortly, the GNOME bluez applet is required. "Applet" is a bit
> of a misnomer here, because the icon settles in the notification area.
> Once activated, it stays there and the only thing it does is showing
> discoverability status changes.
>
> I would like to point out that it goes against the GNOME Human Interface
> Guidelines to display a notification icon perpetually.[1] The reasoning
> behind this is that the notification area is designed to inform the user
> of important events, and when lots of notification icons are displayed
> at the same time, this waters down the primary function of the
> notification area.
the CVS version of bluez-gnome has an option (compile time) to hide the
icon, when no adapter is attached. This should become a GConf option,
but it hasn't been integrated yet. Feel free to send patches.
> In fact there is another bluetooth-related icon in my notification area
> that spends 99,9% of its time doing nothing, for which I've filed a bug
> already.[2] Is there a bug tracker for bluez where I could file a
> request to only display the notification icon for important events?
The mailing list is the correct of addressing this.
Regards
Marcel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-24 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-24 16:09 [Bluez-users] GNOME bluez applet request Reinout van Schouwen
2006-09-24 16:55 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2006-09-24 17:12 ` Reinout van Schouwen
2006-09-24 21:33 ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-09-24 22:05 ` Reinout van Schouwen
2006-09-25 21:45 ` Marcel Holtmann
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