systray icon animation, [was: greetings]

[Seb Ruiz]

Hi!
I don't have much time to provide my full opinion, but here are some
thoughts to take into account.  The systray icon is a 16x16 sized
pixel, so a clock based widget would be too difficult to read quickly
and easily, since the notification size is only half of that of the
icon on average.

For a long time the counter was from empty to full, to indicate that
the track was progressing in playtime. The suddenly it changed to be
the other way around, and I found it very confusing. I generally know
when the song has started, due to osd and common sense, but it is more
difficult to judge the time elapsed when the systray icon is in a
faded out state, than a filled state.

I'm not sure if any of that made any sense, I'm pretty tired :)

Rocking Roktober!
Seb

On 12/10/06, Gianluca <schumissimo1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2006/10/12, Rich <rich at hq.vsaa.lv>:
> > Colin Guthrie wrote:
> > ...
> > > How about a clock?
> > >
> > > At the beginning the icon is black and white, but as the song plays is
> > > slowly fills in to color like a clock moving (surprise) clockwise.
> > >
> > > This is quite intuitive IMO - saves faffing around with up-down,
> > > left-right stuff.
> > >
> > > I reckon we could argue now that it should start in color and become
> > > black and white as the song progresses :)
> >
> > a simple question "up/down ?" has spawned a whole bunch of other
> > possibilities :)
> >
> > at first i though "wha ?" - but up/down (and left/right would suffer
> > from the same problem) is hard to distinct at track start/end as there
> > is little detail.
> > maybe a "clock" would be slightly better at this ?
> >
> > > /me says: "sometimes the hardest decisions to make are those with no
> > > consequence" :)
> > >
> > > Col.
>
> i think that the clock is a very cool idea that can resolve all the problems...
> but we can find some good color fot the contrast effect because the
> icon is "a little bit" small...
>
>
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