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[Tyler Brainerd <tylerbrainerd@xxxxxxxxx>]

It'll be a little easier to come up with user stories when we have some idea
of what the windicators will actually be. :D It'd be nice to get a nice big
set of basic ideas of what should and what shouldn't be in a windicator.

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Alex Schoof <alex.schoof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Somewhat contrived user story: suppose I have a whole bunch of applications
> open, and all of them have some sort of audio playing,  and all of them have
> a volume level windicator. If one application starts playing some sound too
> loud, I can see -- while I'm alt-tabbing -- what the respective sound levels
> of all my applications are. If the windicators are only rendered nativly in
> the window, it will be too small to see or be useful. But, if the
> windicators are larger, then I can quickly see which window is too loud,
> switch to it, and fix it.
>
> I'm sure that there are much better examples of why enlarging windicators
> when windows are iconified is a good idea, but this was ay the top of my
> head ;)
>
> On May 17, 2010 9:52 PM, "Frederik Nnaji" <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 01:47, Brandon Watkins <bwat47@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Interesting idea but I ...
>
> well, if you need to ask like that, check:
> http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/333
>
> otherwise perhaps you misunderstood, or i misunderstood.
> it's 1:1 scale, meaning the windicators are shown in their usual size, even
> while their respective window is scaled down to what have you..
>
>
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