Re: [Tracker] tracker-applet is totally odd for GNOME HIG

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 19:09 +0200, BjÃrn Martensen wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 16:09 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > 2007/10/16, Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>:
> > > Il giorno mar, 16/10/2007 alle 15.12 +0100, jamie ha scritto:
> > > > On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 16:03 +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> > > > > Il giorno mar, 16/10/2007 alle 15.38 +0200, Luca Ferretti ha scritto:
> >
> > > > > > So I think we should really remove from tracker-applet all stuff not
> > > > > > related with the indexing status notification. Also the notification
> > > > > > icon should be displayed (maybe animated) only when tracker is indexing
> > > > > > and will need more then XX seconds (5? 10?) to complete the task.
> >
> > I would have to see such behaviour in practice to judge if it is
> > sensible or not.
> > I could imagine that it would become quite annoying if the
> > tracker-applet constantly vanishes and appears.
>
> I kind of agree with Luca.
> when i tried tracker 0.6.4 from svn lately, i found the current
> tracker-applet extremele annoying already . The animation while indexing
> and changing to a ! all the time is really grabbing my eyes and
> distracting, especially for such a thing as an indexing service, which
> should be something that happens in the background and should just work
> so you can use it.
>
> i'm working on a mac at work atm and the animation the spotlight icon
> has is a lot less distracting as it only shows a very small smoothly
> animated dot when new stuff is indexed and this operation really takes
> some time like indexing a newly connected network drive.
> most of the time you don't get any animation at all, and as i said, even
> when the icon is animated, you hardly ever notice it unless you really
> look at the icon.

we can make it more subtle or slow down the frame rate


> btw, the tracker-applet uses only one fixed size png, which looks really
> bad compared to other status icons and applets which actually follow
> tango size guidelines. this should definately be fixed before a 0.6.4
> release, imho.

what are the recommended sizes for notification icons?


> > Cheers,
> > Michael
>
> greets,
> BjÃrn
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