yeah, this solution is nice and part of a scalable concept.
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:18, Roth Robert
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wrote:
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my opinion for cases like this, we should have the possibility to show
the progress of an operation in an indicator applet menuitem.
in my understanding, each symbolic instance of a process or person will
try to communicate or indicate its parent's "realtime" state and mood..
this would mean that active processes communicate their current state
and progress everywhere they are represented, not only in one dedicated
area of the screen as is the indicator applet.
dbus might perhaps be able to provide a system wide namespace for such a
"broadcast of state".
wherever a process or person now decides to textually or visually represent its/her state or progress, it/she can now forward that sort of data for realtime progress indication through this proposed channel.
brasero in Gnome e.g., while burning data to a dvd, would behave like
this:
*brasero's button in Window List indicates its progress, subtly acting
as a progress bar
*[gnome3.0] your "Activities Indicator Menu" would show brasero's icon
e.g. in animated flames & a progress indication method overlayed or
next to it
*nautilus, as it shows the dvd drive in "Computer", provides a form of
progress indication overlayed with or next to the dvd drive
to add yet another drop-down menu to the indicator applet
would be a solution of transitional nature, imho. a scalable solution is to adapt a consistent indication behaviour throughout the desktop.