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[Jonathan Meek <shrouded.cloud@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think this raises a more important issue: If an indicator remains miss
able (as I believe it was said messaging menu suffers from as well) does
this mean we're doing indicators wrong or is it down to learned behaviors
working against users?

In other words why aren't indicators indicating?

I think this warrants further exploration or potential follow up (or going
back and truing the original spec as suggested) before we write things off
completely. It may be the fact that we can't be privy to internal
communications but it feels like we're saying 'it doesn't work so we'll
change it.' Instead of 'well why doesn't this work and how can we improve
the existing design?'
 On May 14, 2012 5:07 PM, "Loris Zinsou" <the-lz-himself@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Hi,
> I have just noticed this :
> So long, printing menu, we hardly knew you
>
> In Ubuntu 12.04, a printing status menu appears whenever any print jobs
> are in progress. Unfortunately, it’s not that noticeable.
>
> So in 12.10, we plan to replace it with a temporary printing item in the
> launcher. This will correspond to a minimized window listing your recent
> print jobs. You can close it when done, or just ignore it, as you see fit.
>
> (source : http://design.canonical.com/2012/04/status-menus/ )
>
>
>
> Why don't use the "blue color blinking" (as well as the "job started" and
> "job complete" notifications) when a printing task is ongoing instead of
> using some space in the launcher ?
> To me, this would be consistent with the output notification logic : for
> sound, you get a notification of what's going on ("next song"..., as well
> as the blue coor blinking).
>
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