sytem tray jobs/notifications icon

[Marco Martin]

On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Marco Martin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > > out. this resulted in a couple of observations:
> > >
> > > two more:
> > >
> > > * the cursor should change to the clickable link hand when the
> > > job/notifications widget is visible in the system tray (i've
> > > implemented this locally already)
> >
> > uuh, so be an hand on every icon? (the ones we can control, so this and
> > knotificationitem ones) perhaps the highhlight on mouse over is enough to
> > tell that the thing is clickable?
>
> the problem is that it doesn't highlight on mouse over and doesn't look
> immediately like something i'd click on; an icon "feels" clickable, while a
> busy spinner .. not so much.
oh, right.
i would perhaps as i said go with the info icon (maybe enabled/disabled) a 
stopped spinner feels a bit "broken" indeed :)
>
> > > * the dark background behind the jobs widget now is pretty "heavy"
> > > visually since it's always visible there. maybe just a nice simple
> > > divider line?
> >
> > uhm, outdated air theme? now the background should be light and only a
> > few % more opaque than the normal area
>
> hm... yes, it's pretty much imperceptible now.
>
> (speaking of which, the opaque version of the panel provides very, very low
> contrast :/ )
uuh whith what? with the last area of the systray? i will make it slightly 
more opaque, but i think it's good if it's quite subtle actually