share-like-connect in 4.10

[Marco Martin]

On Thursday 04 October 2012, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Thursday, October 4, 2012 13:39:07 Marco Martin wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 October 2012, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > as Marco noted, there are some tweaks that can be made indeed. the
> > > popups are ok, but as visually appealing as they could be nor as easy
> > > to use either imho. some fo the targets are a bit small and the
> > > transitions are not always clear. this is QML twiddling, though, and
> > > i'm sure we'll get a lot more feedback as we do so once it's part of
> > > the default set up.
> > 
> > a thing that i was thinking about is if in the desktop makes sense to
> > have a single icon with the 3 menus merged in one (as happens in the
> > context menus for the pa screen)
> 
> pro: less space taken
> con: more clicks needed

not that if all the actions are all in a single list

> con: can't see immediately see whether there are share, like or connect
> actions available  (it's common that only 1 or 2 are active for a given
> URI) unless we increase the information in the icon

this is probably the real issue (ie what icon to put in this case to give the 
right message?)
 
> the pro may still be worth it. i really don't like it being in the system
> tray, however. that's an abuse of that area as this is not a notification,
> system service or other similar status item. it really is an app interface.
> 
> putting it next to (or at least near) the activities button would also help
> increase the relationship between these concepts ...
> 
> > would have the pro of not having an item in the panel often unused, but
> > the con of cause more layout dancing in the systray area
> 
> the idea is that it would be used :) if it isn't, the user can remove it.

yeah, the concern was just that it wouldn't have any action for many 
applications in the beginning, given that just a subset will report the 
resource in day 0, so it may be seen as a bunch of always disabled icons...

but, since i actually like having it near the activity button (only concern is 
that would risk to look too much like lauchers) makes another idea: 

what about using the activity button applet itself?
in this case the slc buttons will appear only when actually supported.
the con there would be making in this case the pager position to dance

Cheers,
Marco Martin