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[Diego Moya <turingt@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 18 June 2010 17:12, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
On 18/06/10 15:00, Sam Spilsbury wrote:
>>
>> What happens if applications have more than 4 or 5 indicators?
>>
> We'll have to think about that :-)
> Suggestions? Show the ones that most recently changed status?

I like how the Unity launcher solves the problem of many icons on a limited
space.

Maybe the same accordion contracted view could work here? The accordion
could expand to show the most recently updated windicator. This way, you
wouldn't need to hide older icons, and all windicators could be alway shown
in the same order (which is important for recognition).



On 23 June 2010 14:59, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
>>On 18/06/10 19:42, Sam Spilsbury wrote:
>> In that case, I'd say scale them down accordingly.
>They'd be tiny, and not very easy to interact with scaled down. It's a
>neat idea, but I think violating the scaling is actually useful in this
>case.

You can call it "semantic zooming" instead of that ugly "v" word.