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On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 17:56, David Hamm <davidthamm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> "With a persistent indicator for activity or progress, we can also see,
> when the computer is idle: very important state to be aware of!"
>
> So if i'm downloading something in firebox that computer is still idle
> because it's not in the indicator menu? What about 3rd party applications?
>
> both locations? why not just have the task bar able to show progress.
>

of course, the ayatana indicators as far as i understand them speak to the
services we can control through them through DBus, symbolic objects in
namespaces.
At the end of the day.. progress is a dynamic value() that every application
can expose to the system in realtime via DBus with a [title] and a symbolic
icon explaining its origin and state.

A Progress Menu would only be one consistent way of seeing them all in one
place, or even, as suggested before in related threads, prioritize, pause
and continue processes.

My original idea was to sexup the System Monitor a little, but the
network-transparent exposal of dynamic progress information for any app that
would like to share that information sounds higher-level to me, so i prefer
your approach to that.