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[Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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