[maemo-developers] A question to status bar plugin in hildon-desktop

[From: Johan Bilien]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007, Zhu, Peter J wrote:
> Frrom my experience on hildon, gtk_status_icon_*** function and event
> process for status icon works pretty well on hildon-desktop. I didn't
> see any special thing what status bar plugin brings. It's just my
> thinking. Some guys here might have something I didn't know. Please let
> me know.

Yes I would say they are mostly legacy for existing plugins. They stil
have a few advantages:
 . in process, which allows saving some memory and prevents having daemons
mostly UI-less still link against GTK to present their status icon
 . possibility to select which one to show from the
hildon-plugin-settings
 . unified interface with other hildon desktop plugins.

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Johan Bilien
<jobi at via.ecp.fr>