On Wednesday 14,April,2010 06:18 PM, Roth Robert wrote: > Hello! > > A new idea came into my mind regarding the indicators: we have many > applications that execute long-running operations... like when copying > large files or many files, the nautilus icon appears in the system tray > to indicate that some operations are in progress. In my opinion for > cases like this, we should have the possibility to show the progress of > an operation in an indicator applet menuitem. This could be useful for > file operations, cd/dvd writing, sending or receiving file via > bluetooth, downloading file from the internet, etc. > One possible solutions would be to add the functionality of menuitems > with progress bars to the appindicator library, and everyone would > implement menuitems with progressbar for their long-running operations, > or the other one, which I lik better would be to have a progress > indicator applet, which would contain information about all long-running > operations. This would be more efficient, because we could hide it when > there are no operations in progress, show it when there are operations > running. In most cases there are only a few long-running operations > running at once, so the menu shouldn't be cluttered. This would break a > bit the idea of getting information about applications only by clicking > their appindicator, but it would be helpful for many applications that > do not need appindicator, (like nautilus, cd-dvd burners, web browsers > downloading files). > > Please comment, tell me what's your opinion about this... I actually prefer Brasero's way (in Karmic) of showing progress, i.e. the icon itself shows progress in a way that can be estimated. For most things involving progress, I think I'd like to be able to check the progress without needing to click on anything. -- Kind regards, Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411) Ubuntu Developer
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