Ubuntu11.04 revision and "notification area" goodbye

As part of the UI overhaul, Ubuntu will eliminate the traditional notification area (systemtray ). The Canonical design team recently announced that the system will no longer exist in the notification area from Ubuntu11.04 next year. The reason for making this decision is very simple, because the notification area has poor functionality and is inconsistent with the system. Today, the notification areas used by many operating systems are affected by Microsoft. in Windows 95, Microsoft introduced the notification area for the first time, which is used to quickly browse the time and adjust the volume,

As part of the user interface overhaul, Ubuntu will eliminate the traditional notification area (system tray ). The Canonical design team recently announced that the system will no longer exist in the notification area from next year's Ubuntu 11.04.

The reason for making this decision is very simple, because the notification area has poor functionality and is inconsistent with the system.

Today, the notification areas used by many operating systems are affected by Microsoft, and their applications are placed in Windows Firewall.

Although Microsoft tried to use the "Notification area" to cover up the essence of "System Tray", the Ubuntu team pointed out two reasons to prove that it is still "System Tray ". First, as mentioned above, developers can use this area to place icons that do not require notifications at all. Second, it is difficult to effectively warn users of the small icons used in the notification area, it is better to use the prompts such as "you have new emails" and "your battery is charged 10%.

In addition to functional reasons, the Ubuntu team also explained that the notification areas mentioned above are "inconsistent" with the system: in Windows, theoretically, the left-click button indicates "show what users want most", and the right-click button is used to display the menu, when you double-click the left button, it is used to "execute the default command in the right-click menu" or "execute the same command as the left-click Command ". However, the appearance of the notification area leads to confusion. Except that the right-click icon opens the menu, users sometimes do not know what they can get by clicking the left button.

The Ubuntu team said that Ubuntu also encountered this problem like Windows: Some programs can open the menu by left-clicking, some right-clicking can open the menu, and some can open the window ...... It depends on what program you click, which makes the notification area extremely uncoordinated with the system.

From Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, the Ubuntu team began to gradually weaken the notification area. In Ubuntu 9.10, general information menus are introduced for chats and mailboxes, while in Ubuntu 10.04, new sound menus are added to replace traditional volume applets.