Re: [Tracker] System tray icon and monitor

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Luca Ferretti wrote:
> Il giorno mar, 31/10/2006 alle 21.21 -0500, Samuel Cormier-Iijima ha
> scritto:
> > On 10/31/06, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel kamstrup gmail com> wrote:
> > > 2006/10/31, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>:
>
> > >  - Removed  dependency on Python dbus bindings (they where not used)
> > >  - Removed external dependency on icon
> > >
> > > Updated script attached. There is still not much point in it I guess. People
> > > might as well add a launcher to the panel for the same functionality...
> > Yea, there really isn't much point to it :-). The idea was that people
> > could have some sort of indication of how Tracker is doing in the
> > system tray - something along the lines of Google Desktop for Windows.
>
> A similar stuff is available for Apple Spotlight. See this image [1] in
> Italian language.
>
> The text under the blue search bar is: "Spotlight helps you to fast
> search in your computer. Spotlight will be available when the computer
> contents will be indexed"
>
> The texts near the progress bar are "Indexing: Alex's Powerbook" (above)
> and "Evaluating needed time" (below) 

yes I will look into tarting this up - the os/x stuff looks cool


> > If anybody comes up with ideas, I'd be glad to try to make a
> > cool-looking icon. Anyways, I think it's better than what's currently
> > on the Tracker website (a looking glass with a T inside it, lol :-))
>
> Try to ask at next Tango Friday (11/10) :-) 
> Send an email to Andreas Nilsson to include tracker in the list of
> applications that need an icon
>
> http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Fridays

thats a good idea although the looking glass we are using is from tango.

What would be nice is an icon that animates when tracker is busy indexing

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