On Tuesday 27,April,2010 04:05 AM, Ted Gould wrote: > 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? I think there was the issue of upload/download speed of Transmission which used to be displayed in a tooltip, though I cannot really remember. I think Deluge might have a similar mechanism as well, and KTorrent (but that's for KDE). -- Kind regards, Chow Loong Jin
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