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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Conscious User wrote on 08/10/10 12:30:
>...
> Seeing how indicator-datetime shows the full date and
> seeing how new independent projects like this
> 
> http://blog.rtg.in.ua/2010/10/have-you-seen-my-weather-applet.html
> 
> specifically this screenshot:
> 
> http://ubuntuone.com/p/J4U/
> 
> handle information display, I can't help but thinking how
> using insensitive menu items for displaying information
> looks and feels wrong. Even *sensitive* menu items used
> for this purpose feel wrong. Look at the power indicator:
> what does the user expect to happen when clicking on the
> battery status item? I don't think it's obvious.

Good point. I think it'll be a bit more obvious if we make the time
remaining shorter and in brackets, like it was originally -- because
then the main text will clearly be "Laptop battery", "Mouse battery",
etc, more understandably leading to more detailed information about
those things.

>                                                  Also,
> look at the sound indicator: when Rhythmbox is playing,
> it has two clickable entries, one with the Rhythmbox name
> and other with the track info. Both have the same effect,
> and the second looks like it's clickable just for the
> sake of being clickable.
>...

They don't have the same effect. The Rhythmbox item focuses Rhythmbox.
The track data item copies the track data to the clipboard.

Eventually, I think the insensitive date item should become a sensitive
item that opens today's date in your preferred calendar application.

So there's a vague pattern: selecting an informational item should
display more detail about that information. Probably we'll get a clearer
idea about this as we exercise the menus more (e.g. finish
indicator-network).

- -- 
Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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