Proposing the StatusNotifier specification

[Marco Martin]

On Monday 25 January 2010, Giles Atkinson wrote:
> Aaaron,
> 
> Another deferred follow-up, but on 19th January, you wrote:
> > would it help if the entry for ApplicationStatus was extended from ...
> > to something like: ...
> 
> I think that would answer the category objection entirely.
> 
> > is there information in these systems that offers a categorization?
> 
> In my case the application just gets an icon image and a text fragment to
> be displayed on mouse-over.
> 
> > if you could offer an example of the sentence you have in mind, that
> > would be helpful.
> 
> How about "Implementations that previously offered a similar service via
> the Xembed-based system tray specification SHOULD give consideration to
> support for older clients, maintaining support for the older interface for
> a transitional period."
> 
> I personally would like it if you went further: "They MAY offer support for
> the older interface indefinitely, for the benefit of applications that may
> be unable to use the new interface fully, such as those mediate foreign
> application environments (Hypervisors, emulators, remote graphics
> applications)."

I've done this suggested change together with other proposed changes in other 
messages and committed to gitorious.
the updated html export is as usual at 
http://www.notmart.org/misc/statusnotifieritem/

Cheers, 
Marco Martin