Aggregate status menu integration

[dsboger-zz]

Hi, since a few versions ago all default system status indicators have been integrated in the same menu. Have you considered doing the same with this extension? It could work as follows:

• The indicator is completely hidden when no printing jobs are active or queued
• When a job is dispatched, the printer icon would show in the aggregate menu button, indicating printer activity
• The job queue and printer settings launcher would be under an item in the menu dropdown, the same as wifi, battery, etc. The item would have the same printer icon, and the text would be a summary, like "3 jobs", or something the like. This same item could expand to show the queue and settings launcher, pretty much like the current menu

What do you think?

As a reference, there is this extension by yours truly that works as outlined above: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1100/bumblebee-status/

Thanks for your work!

[linux-man]

You're welcome! I thought about that, at first, but every design I tried looked clumsy. You see, printers menu can grow big (imagine more than 4 jobs), especially if you turn on the "send to front option" you get doubled items for every job. I didn't like that inside a dropdown submenu in a already filled system menu. As it is, I can easily show the job count next to the indicator (don't know if I can do that as a system indicator). I accept that your idea is closer to the gnome philosophy, but it has the "one more click" disadvantage that convinced me to drop it. I can only think that this could be an option (like the "show always" and "when printing" ), and I'll look into that, or maybe (I can hope) you'll look into that if you have some time. Thank you for your interest.