Comment 4 for bug 686062

I'm hardly a designer, but I was pretty excited by the prospects of integrating it into the clock menu. One thing to keep in mind is that hamster will occasionally remind you of your current activity every 27 minutes (configurable) via (I presume) notify-osd. As such, if the visible part of hamster in the gnome-panel was tucked into the clock menu, this would likely be quite acceptable for current hamster users. In other words, I don't think I necessarily need to be able to see the applet at all times for it to be useful. Ie:

1. I open the clock menu and see somewhere in the menu 'Start task'
2. Click Start Task, then I get the familiar hamster drop down window and enter 'My task'
3. Work for a while, getting notify-osd reminders that I am working on 'My task'
4. Open the clock menu and see somewhere in the menu 'My task 00:25' (where 00:25 is how long I've been working on 'My task')
5. Click on 'My task 00:25', then I get the familiar hamster drop down window and I can stop the task, start a new one, get the overview, add an earlier activity, etc.

So in this model the only thing that has changed is that hamster isn't displaying 'No activity' or 'My task' in the gnome-panel all the time, but instead tucked away in the clock menu, on demand. It would certainly work well for me, but like I said, I am not a designer or usability expert, but hopefully it might spark conversation or ideas. Full blown integration directly into the calendar in the clock menu could be really slick, but not necessarily required for a functional and integrated time tracker. Hamster is in universe currently, and is therefore opt-in and not in the default install, so an extra entry in the clock menu on hamster-applet install may be ok for now. That said, I wouldn't want the clock menu to become clunky, so I'll let you guys take it from here. :)

It should probably go without saying, but I will say it anyway-- I'm happy to test/give feedback on any hamster integration in Unity.