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Bug 135603 - improve behaviour of empty notification area
improve behaviour of empty notification area
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: notification area
2.5.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-02-27 14:57 UTC by Mark McLoughlin
Modified: 2020-11-06 20:25 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Mark McLoughlin 2004-02-27 14:57:16 UTC 
Basically, the notification area looks stupid when its empty.

The Red Hat bug:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=67955

Jonathan had some good points against hiding it when its empty:

> I don't think that hiding it is such a good idea.  There's no way to 
> remove it, in that case.  Adding a new one looks like you've done a 
> no-op. Additionally, we should have something there by default when you
> start up, so it won't be a complete surprise.  I'd rather improve the 
> default appearance, rather then hide it.

Havoc had a different idea:

> I just thought of how we should do it:
> 
> - the panel just has the tray built in
> - when there are no icons the tray vanishes
> - when there are icons it reappears
> - when it's visible you can move it
> - whenever it reappears it comes back where it was last 
>   time


Sounds pretty reasonable to me.
Comment 1 Luis Villa 2004-03-05 00:21:59 UTC 
2.7-y type thing, right? [And is it high priority for that release?]
Comment 2 Vincent Untz 2005-01-03 19:23:39 UTC 
I'd be with Jonathan on this one. I don't like the idea of having a built in
tray. And I'm not sure it'll be easy to get this correctly when the user has
multiple screens...
Comment 3 André Klapper 2020-11-06 20:25:40 UTC 
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