Re: [Ayatana] (In)sensitive menu itens for displaying information

[Scott Ritchie <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/14/2010 04:18 AM, Conscious User wrote:
> 
>> I agree that the effect of the track data item is pretty undiscoverable.
>> I'd love to see suggestions for that.
> 
> This is more or less one of the points I was trying to make with my
> original message. Technically, it does not *need* to have an effect,
> there's nothing wrong with having purely informative things. The
> problem is fitting this in the "everything is a menu item" paradigm.
> 
> The problem with the current setup, in my opinion, is not
> discoverability, but the fact that the action, even when
> discovered, is not very useful. It seems there just for the
> sake of having an action and touches the pattern of "showing
> more details about the information" only very lightly.
> 

Exactly.  When do you ever need track information copied to the
clipboard?  And is it really such a common task that we need to have it
accessible within two clicks from anywhere on the desktop?