On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 11:16, mac_v <[email protected]> wrote: > > -1 , Checkboxes are not really ideal for indicating app working. > A checkbox ,would mean that the item can also be unchecked , which in > this case cannot be. >
You could certainly uncheck them. Doing so would simple close the application. > As *mpt* , mentions that the apps are to be considered as objects and > they can display icons in the menus. > > We could use icon and toggle transparencies to show if the app is active > or not. Attaching a mockup... > It does look pretty. However, I don't think colors and icons and transparency are the way to go here. That kind of cue is always going to be subject to personal interpretation, not to mention vision/color impairments. A text indicator is important. Even just to bootstrap the approach, it tells people that "this different color/icon means X". For the base indicator-applet icon, we have notifications that tell people "Hey, something's up. You have a new message", which associates the modified icon with the behavior. Currently, and even with that mockup, we have real intuition about what the new colors/transparency mean.
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