On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 21:53 +0200, Sense Hofstede wrote: > > Quick Lookup Information > > > > Applications have previously have made some information quickly available by > > using a tooltip on the icon. While I don't wish to start the tooltip > > discussion again, what I'm curious about is we can't find a solution for > > this information that isn't a tooltip. Does some sort of standard menu item > > help? Could we put it somewhere else? > > > Skipping the rest of your questions: I think that it would be best to > only allow certain applications to display 'quick lookup information'. > I'm thinking: put all media players together with all other > audio-using-applications -- USE PulseAudio's features! -- in the sound > menu and make there room for showing the currently playing song. Put > other 'quick lookup information' in the battery applet, etc. > > All this information would not be put in there using ugly hacks like > insensitive menu items, but instead using a predefined protocol. The > applet can than process the information. We could show the information > in a tooltip, but we could also use insensitive menu items if we > cannot think of anything else. We could also do both, we have the > information and can decide how to process it. I think it makes sense for current song and battery level. Are there other cases of extra information that we'd need to cater to? --Ted
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