Re: System Status Area

[William Jon McCann <william jon mccann gmail com>]

Hey Richard,

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
> On 2 April 2010 03:10, William Jon McCann <william jon mccann gmail com> wrote:
>> I'm cc'ing the maintainers of the key components involved (volume
>> control, bluetooth, network, power, GTK+) for their input.
>
> From a power point of view
> (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Guidelines/SystemStatus/BatteryPower)
> I pretty much agree with Jon's mockups, I've already committed some
> changes to master to move the percentage right aligned, and I've got a
> branch with the symbolic icons that still needs a little more work. I
> certainly think showing the discharge time more prominently in the
> drop-down is required, especially if the future status are does not
> have tooltips like was suggested.

Cool.  I realize now I should have mentioned that we are going to need
some additional toolkit work before we can properly use the symbolic
icons.  I also wrote up a whiteboard page for that:
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Whiteboards/SymbolicIcons
Hopefully people can fill in more about what we'll actually need to do...

> I am quite keen to stick to a GtkStatusIcon based architecture, unless
> of course projects like LXDE and XFCE are okay implementing an
> external dep such as libappindicator or whatever.

Well, I'll humbly suggest that we think about what is right for GNOME
first :)  But good to get the discussion started.  Anyone else?

Jon