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Re: Countdown Widget

 

Sounds fair. Perhaps if/when Farewell is created, it could be created there.

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Well, normally what we've done is we've built the widgets in an app first
> and then merged them into granite as more apps wanted to use them.
>
> I think this method probably applies here as well. I would suggest
> improving and abstracting the widget in Eidietie (can't wait for that name
> to die, it's impossible to spell or pronounce) and then when we run into
> the situation where we want to use it in more apps it'll be ready to go :)
>
> Best Regards,
> Daniel Foré
>
> www.elementaryos.org
>
> On Jan 17, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Pim Vullers <pim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I think we need some distinct use cases for such widget. The only one I
> can think of now is as a replacement for the countdown before shutdown,
> currently in gnome there is just the text 'will automatically shutdown
> after 60 seconds' which counts down.
> >
> > As for the other cases mentioned earlier, i think most of them should
> keep using a normal progressbar.
> >
> > Pim
> >
> > Cassidy James <c@xxxxxxxxxxx>schreef:
> >
> > I'd like to get some UX input on this... I still think it's a distinctly
> different widget and could be advantageous.
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