New property proposal for StatusNotifierItem protocol: Label

[Jeremy Whiting]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Ivan Čukić <ivan.cukic at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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)
>
> Well, in my case, the keybd indicator without the text is rather
> useless - the same flag for two different layouts (Latin and
> Cyrillic).
>

I have the same problem, both us and us-dvorak have an american flag...


>
> On the other hand, although I find the text rather useful in a few
> applications, I agree with Aaron that making it too easy for devels,
> would lead to every icon having some textual info on top of it...
>
> The only advantage of this proposal (as far as I'm concerned) is that
> we could choose how to handle this text providing more consistency,
> while currently we can't since it is embedded into the icon. Example -
> battery shows the text on hover, kmail and akregator show it always.
>
>
> Cheerio
>
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