On Tuesday 10 August 2010 18:05:30 Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > > looking at the use cases provided, is there really a need for such > > text? > > > > > > for plasma, the battery is a proper plugin / applet. (and even then, by > > default it doesn't show text in the tray.) for the rest of the entries, > > we rely on graphical cues for status change and the tooltips to > > communicate details. is it important to see that you have 1045 emails at > > all times in the system tray? i also wonder how an email client would > > give a useful > > > > LabelGuide (i suppose it wouldn't) > > This is up to the application to decide. KMail can already show this > message count. I agree for you and me this information has little value. > It is very different for people who receive 2 or 3 mails a day.
Most likely, we won't use KNotifierStatusItem for KMail's message indicator, but a proper Plasmoid though -- Lion Mail. The email count is currently in a tooltip, and I think that works nicely. -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
