Thumbnail buttons and actions

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday, February 3, 2011, todd rme wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 February 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> >> On Thursday, February 3, 2011, todd rme wrote:
> >> > One feature I think would be useful would be if applications were able
> >> > to add buttons to their thumbnails in the task manager.  Use cases
> >> 
> >> could this be done with the status notifier spec?
> > 
> > sounds to me like a set of action associated to an item... so yes ;)
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Marco Martin
> 
> Does the spec have hints for locations, the ability to pass sets of
> significant-sized pixmaps with the ability to click on them,
> categories the tool displaying them can use as cues, and the other
> parts necessary to display, organize, and format the buttons around
> the edge of a 2D block?

answer: you don't want application developers doing that.

it assumes a 2D block. what happens when we change that?
it assumes app devs know where to position things: they don't.

:)

on the app side always set metadata, enough so the rendering app can decide 
how to sort it out.

on the visualization side, do the arranging.

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