Re: [Tracker] System tray icon and monitor

[Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>]

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) 

BTW: wait to search until all files will be indexed is really a great
feature.

If we want this feature in GNOME, we need:
      * a program to add to users' sessions (such as gnome-cups-icon in
        Edgy to show printer activity)
      * some icons to install ad named icons under
        $prefix/share/icons/hicolor to make them themable
        ("tracker-status-sleep", "tracker-status-extracting",
        "tracker-status-flushing")
      * re-read HIG about status icons (I'm not sure
        "tracker-status-sleep" is a good idea for HIG.
      * localization support :-)

[1]
http://www.mac-community.it/AreaSupporto/OSX/spotlight_tutorial/files/page46_14.jpg

> > About a tracker icon: Tracker really needs something leet. If you ask me a
> > looking glass with an arrow does not cut it. In deskbar we have a lightning
> > comming out of the looking glass, that is leet. Everybody likes lightning!
> > Seriously; I don't have any good ideas right now, but a good icon is good
> > branding.
>
> 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