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Re: More information in indicator menus

 

i want something like this to have my babies!

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> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:03:17 +0000 
> From: m.richardson.1990@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> To: ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> Subject: [Ayatana] More information in indicator menus 
>  
> Recently Ian Santopietro made some mockups for how Unity might look on  
> a phone or a desktop. 
> I love the way his phone indicators look and the amount of information  
> they show and I think we should migrate them to the desktop. I have  
> done a mockup below to show how they would display: 
>  
> Mockup<http://ubuntuone.com/3pQaNx9TdpPXEZHMIjPgdP> 
>  
> Clicking an indicator would show the menu as now. 
> Clicking a message would load the appropriate window (email, chat etc). 
> Clicking the Email/Chat/Broadcast icons would load the appropriate program. 
> Hovering over the Email/Chat/Broadcast icons for 0.3 seconds, see  
> later) would display the extra options currently available in the menu  
> (i.e. Hovering over the Email button would display options for 'Compose  
> new message' and 'Contacts'). 
> The 0.3 second delay on hovering is simply to prevent accidental  
> switching between categories when moving the mouse to select an option  
> under the current category (e.g. The user tries to change their status  
> to 'Busy', but as they move their mouse down, they pass over the  
> Broadcast icon and the menu changes) 
> If the person you are chatting with has a profile picture, this would  
> be displayed instead of the blank avatar in the menu or the chat symbol  
> in the notification area. 
> Other menu options would behave as now (change status, open chat window  
> with selected content) 
>  
> Any thoughts/issues? 
> Matt 
>  
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