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    <title><![CDATA[Dynamic emblems for icons]]></title>
    <link>http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/10576/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[There is a lot going on at the same time in an Ubuntu system, and it is desirable to get access to a lot of information about this very quickly and very easily. A big problem in trying this, however, is that in order to get the desired information on screen it is often necessary to display a lot of confusing information at a time, or else display less stuff but have a greater risk of missing what the user wanted. This requires contextual information (ie. information relevant to whatever the user is doing), and an understandable way to represent it.<br />
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<b>[383 votes] Solution #1: More dynamic emblems for icons</b>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from francois</title>
  <description><![CDATA[great!]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from andruk</title>
  <description><![CDATA[The only thing I wonder about is what program will update the icon?  If a text editor crashed while it was editing 3 documents, then it would have to be run before it could update its own icon, making this feature (for that specific case) useless.<br /><br />Needs a bit more fleshing out, but<br /><br />+1, innovative.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Jadd</title>
  <description><![CDATA[It's needs thinking through, but if GNOME managed to implement this, it would be fantastic.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from BadChoice</title>
  <description><![CDATA[One of the best ideas I've seen!!]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from glotz</title>
  <description><![CDATA[I personally don't like too much information. K.I.S.S.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from vrangforestillinger</title>
  <description><![CDATA[I like the part with being able to see how much space there is on a device etc. But having email icons show unread messages without the email program being open etc etc, Im afraid that the amount of background proc. will become too large.<br /><br />+1 Its a good idea, but only up to a certain bloatware-point..]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Endolith</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Great idea.  ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Auzy</title>
  <description><![CDATA[This is a good idea, and helps improve feedback]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from cumulus007</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Really cool idea!]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from mprince</title>
  <description><![CDATA[+1 and a bookmark, too.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from aantn</title>
  <description><![CDATA[I believe AWN already supports this for applications, but it definitely could be used elsewhere as well.<br /><br />I'm planning on playing around with something similar as described here: http://theesylum.com/2008/09/25/making-icons-more-useful/. (Sorry for the shameless self-advertising, but I'd rather not copy over a whole post.) If anyone wants to write up a brainstorm idea on the topic then that would be great. (If not, I'll eventually get around to doing it myself.)<br /><br />+1]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from simo_magic</title>
  <description><![CDATA[the icons should be customizable by the icon theme, of course ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Endolith</title>
  <description><![CDATA[<i>Aside from being very useful and incredibly cool, this could offer applications an alternative to abusing the notification area with perpetual icons. Instead they can add functionality to any of their panel launchers.</i><br /><br />You mean like Apple's dock? :)]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
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