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[Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Martin ;)

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 01:01, Martin Owens <doctormo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 15:54 -0500, Apoorva Sharma wrote:
> > I don't propose that we should completely ditch windicators, but I
> > guess you could say that I propose that windows show statuses related
> > to them in the titlebar, alongside the panel menu notifications.
> >
> > I think having windicators is a good idea, but they should be
> > standardized, not used unnecessarily and inconsistently.
>
> Windicators could be useful and consistent, but I guess it'll take a
> long time for the functionality to settle down and I'm willing to wait 3
> years to see what happens and where they go.
>
> I want a complaints windicator that offers a single text box to type in
> a one line complaint/problem and which creates a list of outstanding
> complaints. These one lines are arrogated on a server somewhere and
> probably has some code to look through for patterns in complaints.
>
> Project people could then use the data as a much less structured source
> of usability and functionality testing data.
>
> Martin,
>

do you mean something like an "ubuntu-bug" windicator?