From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: To: bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net From: Reinout van Schouwen Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:09:54 +0200 Message-ID: <1159114194.5088.44.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: [Bluez-users] GNOME bluez applet request Reply-To: BlueZ users List-Id: BlueZ users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: bluez-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: bluez-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Hello, 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. 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? Thanks for listening! [1] http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/desktop-notification-area.html [2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150046 regards, -- Reinout van Schouwen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bluez-users mailing list Bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bluez-users