Jakub’s new one canvas workflow is totally awesome!
Making various sizes of icons is now a hundred times less frustrating. Especially because [1] Inkscape launches a new instance every time you open an icon, so you can’t copy and paste between windows. [2] the icon directory is a maze when you want to find icons [3] And… whatever, I’ll never have to deal with all that ever again!
This latest mockup to try to make the notification area look better got a bit out of hand, but the idea is to have some visible container widget to hold all the notification area icons. This way your panel looks a lot cleaner and it’s easier to distinguish them from applets or launchers. They are safely in their box, and you won’t have to be afraid they’ll attack you anytime soon. I also thought it would be a nice idea to have launchers placed on some kind of buttons to increase consistency.