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Bug 102602 - Why does acme need a notification icon?
Why does acme need a notification icon?
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 102029
Product: acme
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Bastien Nocera
Bastien Nocera
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-01-05 18:15 UTC by Mike Hearn
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.1/2.2



Description Mike Hearn 2003-01-05 18:15:26 UTC
I'm wondering why acme puts an icon in the notification area, when all it
does is give access to the prefs dialog which is reachable via other means.
Maybe I'm wrong, but it doesn't seem to actually do anything other than
signal that the daemon is active, which isn't really useful info.

This is a minor thing, but I'm reporting it because I don't want to see
GNOME become like Windows, where every app decides that it wants some
screen space and puts an icon into the notification area despite it not
actually being used to notify the user of anything - I think the icons
should usually be temporary. Otherwise we'll end up needing a "hide old
icons" feature like that found in XP, which is silly.

Thoughts?
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2003-01-05 18:27:21 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 102029 ***
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2003-03-10 17:31:55 UTC
*** Bug 102029 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***