Re: [Deskbar] deskbar 2.20 impressions

[Sebastian Pölsterl <marduk k-d-w org>]

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Jose daLuz schrieb:
> On 10/26/07, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel kamstrup gmail com> wrote:
>> On 26/10/2007, Sebastian Pölsterl <marduk k-d-w org> wrote:
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>> Well, I think that the history icon should match the "item" activated by
>> the user. The user should not have to distinguish between actions or
>> matches. If the user activates the "Launch Text Editor" match with the GEdit
>> icon next to it - that is what I think should appear in the history.
>>
>> If another icon is shown in the history because the actual default action
>> that was activated had another icon, I say let's fix the action to have the
>> correct icon (the same as the match's icon).
>>
>> Blah, this is hard to explain :-)
>>
>> Let me try ;-).
> 
> I type in "deskbar", then click on "Search Wikipedia for deskbar", I expect
> the Wikipedia icon will be in the history list for this item. I type in
> "shut" and click on "Turn off the computer", I expect the gear icon will be
> in the history. "Voice" gives me the Voice of the Shuttle website, I expect
> the favicon from that website will be in the history.
> 
> Matches/actions are "under the hood", the *only* intuitive icon for the
> history list is whatever icon was next to the deskbar search result I
> clicked on. Perhaps that requires storing the icon in the history rather
> than looking it up?
> 
I understand what you want, so that's not the problem ;)

Your example only pays attention to matches with a single match, i.e.
you activate them right away and don't see a list of actions.
With more then one action, I can activate it right away, too, of course.
But when I activate one of the additional actions what should the icon
be then? The one of the match or the one of the action?

My problem is that the user can activate an action in two different ways:
1) Just clicking on a match (default action)
2) Displaying the list of actions and selecting an action there

But most of the time the match has a different icon than all the
actions. The action's icon is displayed in history, because 1) silently
activates the default action. Would the actions have the same icon as
the match, the icon would be useless for the actions, because it doesn't
give any additional information. The only thing that might be useful is
that the icon of the default action has the icon of match, but I'm not
sure if this would only cause even more confusion.

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Greetings,
Sebastian Pölsterl
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