Comment 19 for bug 391056

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Andrea Cimitan (cimi) wrote : Re: [Bug 391056] Re: Implement a notification area in Docky

2009/11/30 Cyberkilla <email address hidden>:
> Whilst I agree that notification area would be great, I have some
> reservations about the manner in which it would be displayed.
>
> I see a couple of docks using atrocious boxes of blurred notification
> icons, with buggy right-click context menus that sometimes won't even
> close when they lose focus.
>
> What I was thinking was, in the same way that you display the weather
> and calendar, could you /potentially/ do the same for the notification
> icons?
>
> For instance, you'd have a useful - but unintrusive - single docklet icon...
> When you click on the icon, the tray icons would slide in, just as the weather forecast does.
>
The purpose of notification area icons is to have them always visible,
if you hide them then they become useless :)
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