> All that said, I'm skeptical about the obviousness of any unified > graphical interface for different types of file transfer. And if there > was one, I very much doubt it would take the form of a menu. For > example, I'd want to be able to drag and drop tasks to reprioritize > them; it's possible to do that in a menu (as the Windows 98 start menu, > Netscape 4, and Internet Explorer have shown), but doing it in a window > is more forgiving of misclicks, especially when earlier tasks are busily > vanishing.
That and, in my opinion, reprioritizing is a kind of "advanced" action that does not really belong to the simplicity of an indicator. I think it would be fine enough if the "download indicator" was a menu with one item per download. This item would have a percentage, a label and an icon indicating the source application. Clicking on each item opens such application. A last, "preferences" item, would open a window for things such as reprioritizing. The main icon could indicate the progress of all downloads summed. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
