From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031014 Epiphany/1.0.1 Description of problem: The RHN applet sits in the notification area, with a big bright blue icon, even tho it's not notifying me of anything. If it doesn't have anything to tell me, it shouldn't be there. Users can launch up2date in the menu, can configure up2date from the menu, and they do not need a big blue distracting icon to do these things. By not having the icon, the "switch" to the red "updates ready" icon will be even more drastic, thus more likely to catch users attention. Also see the numerous thread on usability and desktop-devel-list on the proper usage of the notification area and why it shouldn't be abused and used for the same purpose a normal applet would work for. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhn-applet-2.1.0-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. add notification area to panel 2. add rhn-applet to your session 3. update your system 4. observe the pointless blue Check icon Actual Results: pointless blue icon in the notification area. Expected Results: no icon in the nofication area, since there's nothing to notify me about. Additional info: I'm using the version of the applet recently posted to the fedora list that supports yum. This behaviour does seem to be present in the normal version (only utilizing up2date) as well, tho.
Well if some people have specific usability comments about the applet, they should raise it here, not on the gnome.org lists, it is not a GNOME software. W.r.t. the presence of the icon on the panel, if you don't want it, then remove it. If you use the service, then it will be around. So far I don't intent to change the way the applet behaves. If I had significant negative user feedback on the topic, then I would consider that request, but balanced with the fact that this icon is identified as a logo for the RHN services, its removal would need far more than just engineering feedback. Daniel
Can it be made a normal applet then and not a notification area icon? Its behaviour is perfectly fit for a normal applet.
No because it must work in both KDE and GNOME ! Daniel