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[Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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