New property proposal for StatusNotifierItem protocol: Label

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 10 August 2010, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:

> I would say we have much more control now with the SNI protocol. We can
> limit things to sane values. For example the host could decide on a
> maximum width and simply fade out the text if it's too wide. A useful
> recommendation in this sense would be to ask application developers to
> repeat the information in the tooltip so that one can ensure the text is
> always available (would be useful if a "no label" option is added)

not sure on that.
i already cringe on the keyboard layout indicator appearance applet because it 
is text (and i wouldn't know how to make it different here)
if random icons had text on them, i think the whole appearance would be really 
ruined.
for things like unread emails, i probably need just an indicator like an 
overlay icon, and if it's colored, in a monochrome systray would detach itelf 
enough to serve for the goal i think.

Cheers,
Marco Martin