GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 569888
Merge notification area preference into a checkbox
Last modified: 2009-06-23 12:55:47 UTC
I don't think showing the notification are all the time is very useful, and it's probably not very HIG-ish. I propose to merge it into a checkbox: [ ] Show icon in the notification area when there's a connection. (I guess the wording could be improved). That would cover the use case of never displaying it, and only when there's a connection. We would loose the use case of displaying it all the time, but I can't imaging anyone doing that ;) And the dialog would become even simpler.
My first question from reading that label is: "what icon?" Would it be possible to show the icon inside in the checkbox label itself? Something like [ ] Show ※ icon when a computer is connected (Incidentally, checkbox labels should not end with periods.)
I wouldn't like to loose the option of displaying it all the time. I find it very useful, letting the user know that his desktop is being shared. That was my main use case when I first wrote the status icon patch :)