Public bug reported:
See attached image.
The new notification area in Lucid has two issues. Spacing and applet
behavior.
The notification area now takes up almost a whole 1/4 of my top panel.
For those of us who don’t like having two panels and want their window
list up the top, it leaves hardly any room to show open windows.
Just look at the spacing around the Rhythmbox icon, you could drive a
bus through there!
The current panel spacing is bad because:
It uses up too much of your top panel
It is inconsistent compared with the rest of the theme
It is inconsistent with other items on the panel*
* Compare the gap between Rhythmbox and the volume icon with the gap
between the wireless network icon and Pidgin.
Another thing that’s flawed about this new notification area is the fact
that each item isn’t an individual applet. For example, say I want to
remove the Messaging menu because I don’t like it or don’t use it. This
is actually a fairly plausible scenario, many people don’t use Evolution
because they prefer webmail services such as Gmail. Also, many people
use Pidgin instead of Empathy because, well, because Pidgin is just
better. So in this scenario, pretty much 75% of the functionality of the
messaging menu is now useless.
My only option is to remove the entire notification applet, so I lose
Rhythmbox, the battery status indicator, and the volume indicator. (For
some reason the wireless applet is separate.)
Solution? You could either separate all of the applets into individual
ones, but I think the best way would be to logically group them into
“system status” and “applications.”
For example, in the “system status” area you could have things that tell
you information:
Battery indicator
Wireless indicator
Volume indicator
Crash report notification
Updates available
CPU Scaling
And in the “applications” area you could have a tray-like section that
has stores the icons for applications while they are running:
Rhythmbox
Messaging Menu
Pidgin
Desktop Drapes
Banshee
Transmission
etc
This is just one possible idea for a solution.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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New notification area problems
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/533544
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