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[Dylan McCall <dylanmccall@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for all the awesome explanations!

I left a question in the comments at design.canonical.com, and I have a
few other thoughts.

First of all, I think it would be worth investigating sound effects
attached to indicators. Doing it through the indicator applet means we
can (if desired) use Canberra's awesome ca_gtk_play_for_widget function
(which means beautiful positional audio).


Secondly, I think it's really important to explore the window list at
this point. As others have mentioned, this is all doing a nice job of
establishing what certain APIs are for and making sure they don't get
misused. However, we're lacking a replacement for one of the more
popular misuses: notification icons for minimization.

One thing that occurs to me is to change the window list into a more
physical place that you can move windows to. So, "minimized" windows
appear there, and are available there, no matter what workspace you're
on. It would no longer list windows unless they are minimized. Pretty
substantial change, but maybe I can do a mockup or something if anyone's
interested :)

Gnome-shell could be doing some useful stuff there, too.


I was a bit worried upon reading “And further, everything is becoming a
single set of menus.” I could be interpreting it wrong, but this sounds
like everything is going to be stuck in the same space at the top right
even though they are all neatly categorized. I think there should be
separation between these different categories of indicators in some
form. For example, substantial whitespace between app indicators
(including indicator-messages) and system-related indicators (battery,
session). Are we on the same page?


Thanks,
Dylan


PS: If the clock applet is intended to get arbitrary extensions from
different bits of PIM software to show appointments (not just Evolution
and not jammed in to the applet itself), that's something I've wanted
for a long time. Yay! I just hope it doesn't spell the death of the
world clock feature. If it does, I recommend being cautious; it may have
some very happy users :)

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