[Bluez-users] GNOME bluez applet request

Reinout van Schouwen
2006-09-24T16:09:54Z

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