Kbd LEDs: now in notification area (if you need them)
April 26, 2010 8:36 am g-s-d, gnomeThe picture explains everything (in relation to this bug):
Turned on/off using gconf entry. Open questions:
- Should I request stock icons (instead of png files in g-s-d) – for themability?
- Should the icon names be added to “well known icons list” in the notification area applet?
- Should the gconf entry be made visible through the kbd capplet (checkbox)?
- Most important: can anyone with designer skills better than mine create 6 icons that would look better than that?
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616380
April 26th, 2010 at 9:21 am
Icon looks familiar to Parisian people
http://www.ratp.info/picts/moteur/ligne/rer_rerA.gif š
April 26th, 2010 at 9:32 am
:)))
April 26th, 2010 at 9:46 am
Maybe this isn’t appropriate place for this question but: whether the GNOME will adopt Ubuntu’s “tray-less approach” which they want to introduce in next releases? And where will go the kbd indicator in case of tray removal?
April 26th, 2010 at 10:47 am
I would love to see these indications integrated with the keyboard language icon (though Iām not exactly sure how that would look, design-wise). It would fit quite well into Ubuntuās recent efforts, as all keyboard-related indicators and notifications could be unified into one icon/menu.
April 26th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
Let ubuntuers implement those hacks:)
April 26th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
I don’t know about the other questions you’ve asked, but:
2. Almost certainly, yes, since they’re going to be there all the time.
The icons should not rely purely on colour to show whether the “LED” is on, since that would render them useless for partially-sighted or colour blind users.
April 26th, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Great, now we just need a hardware database of keyboards without hardware indicators so we know when to show it!
April 26th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Enough databases. XKB geometry contains that info. If it does not – it should be updated.
April 26th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
To answer question 1: If there *are* xdg stock icons for those purposes, then you should totally use them. Otherwise, you can propose them to freedesktop š
Btw, this applet is going to be a lifesaver for me, with my LED-less wireless keyboard. Keep up the good work!
May 12th, 2010 at 8:33 am
Great, now we just need a hardware database of keyboards without hardware indicators so we know when to show it!
May 12th, 2010 at 8:33 am
The icons should not rely purely on colour to show whether the āLEDā is on, since that would render them useless for partially-sighted or colour blind users.
May 12th, 2010 at 8:36 am
It would fit quite well into Ubuntuās recent efforts, as all keyboard-related indicators and notifications could be unified into one icon/menu.
May 12th, 2010 at 8:37 am
(though Iām not exactly sure how that would look, design-wise). It would fit quite well into Ubuntuās recent efforts, as all keyboard-related indicators and notifications could be unified into one icon/menu.