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[Fabrice Rey <fabounet03@xxxxxxxxx>]

I approve this feature. For the representation, in GLX-Dock for instance you
can specify a background color for these indications. I belive the same can
or could be done with other docks too.
Here is an exemple :
http://uppix.net/7/2/f/37dfe2c35b1da967a7faa1f0e7d8b.png

Having the dock/panel render this indications would ensure a coherence
between all the icons, and would fit the global theme of the dock/panel
better than if the application draws it itself on its image (and it would
avoid using pixmap at the same time).

Fabounet.

Le 18 mai 2010 16:04, Marco Martin <notmart@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> 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
>
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