![]() So it can become easy to for a message to just get drowned out and therefore missed.ĭon't get me wrong I genuinely enjoy the design decision behind Gnome but the app indicator is one of the few places where I disagree.ĮDIT: Another application case: I use a pomodoro timer to stay productive at times. On could argue that the application should just push a notification to the notification centre (or how it's called in Gnome) but if you receive to many notifications at once you lose old ones as Gnome does not stack notifications from the same application into one message. So developers resorted to using the app indicator for this instead. I don't see another way to let the user know whether the software is currently syncing unless you explicitly pop a notification (which I personally find more interrupting than the app indicator) or having the application window open on your current workspace.Īnother thing: As far as I know there is currently no way to display notification badges like iOS/Android do where the app icon gets a little red circle with the number of missed notifications on it. However, there are some other uses of app indicators that are not covered by this.įor example cloud sync clients like Nextcloud change the indicator depending on whether or not they are currently syncing. I'd rather have some non-optional indication an app is running in the background rather than leave it to the app to control whether its going to tell me or not. I agree with the GNOME teams view on tray icons, they're just poor. ![]()
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