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The problem is when you allow one developer its own applet, every application wants one, and suddenly you have 15 applets. Applications need to figure out alternative design patterns to achieve the same result or sidestep the problem.
There’s this saying, out of sight, out of mind, do you really need to have a constant eye on every application? When there’s an actual change you get a notification.
Do you honestly think an icon bar like this is a good thing? Look at the colors, the amount of them, how they fold because there’s too many… And it’s the same shit on windows too. It looks ugly, they’re hard to click on, most of them don’t serve any purpose… I agree appindicators do serve a purpose, but as it is, i prefer not having them at all.