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[Marco Martin <notmart@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 18 May 2010, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (This is not exactly for DBusMenu, but this list seems to be a common
> ground for all involved people, so I choose to post it there)
> 
> Right now a StatusNotifierItem can only display an icon. Last week at
> the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) we discussed the idea of adding a
> Label property to the org.kde.StatusNotifierItem interface. This would
> provide a nice way for applications to display short text in addition to
> the icon, without resorting to the use of custom pixmaps made of text
> rendered over existing icons.
> 
> Here are some use cases for such a property:
> - A keyboard layout switcher could show the name of the current layout.
> - A battery indicator could show the remaining percentage.
> - A mail client or an RSS agregator could show the unread message count.
> 
> What do you think of this?
> 
> Aurélien
i did think about it back then, but
I'm not sure about that, because it would require said text to be very short, 
2-3 letters max
this way it would put a bond on what the visualization is
also it can really open a can of worms mixing text and  icons in general, 
because in this way you have to do an assumption on what color the icon is, 
what size it is, and where the text will be put over the icon

Cheers,
Marco Martin