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[Vishnoo <vish@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 17:15 -0300, Conscious User wrote:
> It is interactive: when you click on it, the track information is
> copied to the clipboard and you can paste it somewhere else.
> 
> Whether this is useful, specially considering discoverability, is
> a different discussion. In my personal opinion... well, no.
> 
> 
> Le samedi 26 mars 2011 à 15:32 -0400, Brett Cornwall a écrit :
> > Hello, I have been wondering for some time - is there a particular 
> > reason for having the "now playing" text fields in the sound indicator 
> > highlighted on mouseover? It gives the impression that it's an 
> > interactive item but it's merely there for displaying information. Would 
> > it not make more sense to have no mouseover highlight?
> > 
> > screenshot: http://ubuntuone.com/p/jax/
> > 
> > If yes, should I report a bug? I wanted to check to make sure there's no 
> > design decision including this behavior first.
> > 

I dint realize it copied info to clipboard either. 
Why is that "copy to clipboard" so easily accessible, btw? Do a lot of
people use that info frequently?

I was actually expecting that clicking on the song info, would open the
player and focus on that song. 

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Cheers,
Vish