I am considering forking Parcellite and making it use AppIndicators now that Ubuntu has dropped support for systray. How different are these, and are there any "getting started" guides on AppIndicators yet?
Status menus seem to be intended, among other things, to streamline indications. Some of these indications are not confined to the old Notification Area: others can be found on their own windows and indicate running processes, such as Nautilus copying some files, Firefox performing downloads or Brasero burning a DVD.
I have seen a series of mockups showcasing mockups for a progress indicator:
I would like to know if there are any actual plans to create a real progress indicator to house this type of indications.
Why Ubuntu uses the Indicator Applet? It loses a lot of usability, why made it when Gnome already have one?
Example
Without indicator applet: Application is in the icon tray Left click opens the application window Right click shows a menu related to application
With indicator applet: Application is in the icon tray Left click shows a menu with a few options related to application Right click shows a menu related to "indicator applet"
This means it takes 2 clicks to show the application main window, while before it need only one.
Why make something that already exists and is useful? Why change for something that no has usability?
I don't necessarily expect a whole tutorial for creating a sound indicator entry here on askubuntu, but I've searched and searched, and I can't seem to find any documentation on creating a sound indicator. Preferably, I'd like to be able to do this in Python. Can someone point me in the right direction??
I've created a simple indicator in python using the appindicator module. However, it always shows up to the left of the existing indicators. Is there some way to control what position the indicators appears in?
For example, it currently displays like so...
my indicator, volume indicator, messaging indicator
but I want...
volume indicator, messaging indicator, my indicator