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[Roth Robert <evfool@xxxxxxxxx>]

The karmic way of brasero showing the progress consists of an icon in the
system tray, changing as the operation progresses. As far as I understood,
the plans for lucid+1 are to completely remove the legacy notification area.
Then brasero will have an application indicator with no actions, with a
changing icon for showing progress, with no menu, leading to notification
area inconsistency again, because all the items there do have a menu.

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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