New property proposal for StatusNotifierItem protocol: Label

[Aurélien Gâteau]

On 10/08/2010 20:21, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On August 10, 2010, Ted Gould wrote:
>>        * Power.  An icon that would be the approximate battery level, but
>>
>           also accompanied by a percentage.  While I'm also skeptical on
>>          the value of having the label there constantly, there is a very
>>          passionate group behind it.  And, I was also shocked to find out
>>          even Apple was unable to subdue them :)
>
> passion does not make people right. if we design based on how passionate
> someone can get about something, everything would be themed after some
> Japanese cartoon or be based on contet from a Holy Book. sometimes we have
> to step back and say, "I understand your point, but the surrounding issues
>   veto it. Sorry."

I think the interesting point of the fact that Apple allows label is not 
some holy "if Apple does it, then we should do it". What's interesting 
IMHO is that it has been around for a while, and so far I haven't 
witnessed too much abuse of this label property by third-party Mac OS X 
developers. I won't pretend to have tried every Mac application out 
there, of course, but at least the few I have seen extending the menubar 
this way did it in a reasonable way.

You can find some examples of Mac OS X menulets here:
http://menu.jeweledplatypus.org/

Aurélien