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On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 21:58, Scott Ritchie <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 10/14/2010 04:18 AM, Conscious User wrote:
> >
> >> I agree that the effect of the track data item is pretty undiscoverable.
> >> I'd love to see suggestions for that.
> >
> > This is more or less one of the points I was trying to make with my
> > original message. Technically, it does not *need* to have an effect,
> > there's nothing wrong with having purely informative things. The
> > problem is fitting this in the "everything is a menu item" paradigm.
> >
> > The problem with the current setup, in my opinion, is not
> > discoverability, but the fact that the action, even when
> > discovered, is not very useful. It seems there just for the
> > sake of having an action and touches the pattern of "showing
> > more details about the information" only very lightly.
> >
>
> Exactly.  When do you ever need track information copied to the
> clipboard?  And is it really such a common task that we need to have it
> accessible within two clicks from anywhere on the desktop?
>

Was this in any spec at all, before implemented?