Provide progress and mute in summary or body of notifications

Maato / volumeicon

Volume Icon aims to be a lightweight volume control that sits in your systray.

http://nullwise.com/volumeicon.html

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Provide progress and mute in summary or body of notifications #15

Closed progandy closed 9 years ago

progandy commented 12 years ago

When using volumeicon with notification systems that do not support a progressbar, the summary or message body should contain the percentage in string form. Currently only "Volume icon" is displayed and all important information is lost.
For services without icon support the notification text should contain the mute status.

Maato commented 12 years ago

I have not been able to find a way to ask a notification server if it has support for a progress-bar, so I'm not sure how this could be implemented without presenting the information twice in some cases.

progandy commented 12 years ago

The specification states you should never assume that a notification server supports a specific hint. All important information should be available in summary and body. If you don't like it, a simple commandline switch could toggle summary format.