show amount receiving instead of giving on button

[chadwhitacre]

@dianaclarke points out that showing the amount you give violates the anonymity principle. Instead of showing just the text "Gittip," how about if we show the amount the person is receiving? That'd be more like GitHub's "Star" widget and Twitter's "Follow" widget. We should show a depressed button if we wanted to indicate tippage without giving away the amount.

One problem is that we have limited width due to the hard-coded iframe embed.

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[chadwhitacre]

Eh, @rummik?

[rummik]

@whit537 The new widgets don't have the <iframe> width issue. But yeah, I can see the problem with how it works right now. Should we make it so widgets can't look at this after it's changed?

Edit: Hm. Actually, thinking about it, this may conflict with some of the widget ideas -- maybe we should have an option to not show amount giving in widgets? (not just publicly, but also privately)

[chadwhitacre]

Right, the case here is when someone is watching over your shoulder (pairing, at a sprint or conference, meetup, etc.). They can see what you're tipping to whom. We need to think about dropping back and only ever showing "Gittip" on the button.

[rummik]

That's what I mean -- let the user have an option decide if they want to protect against this ("don't show me how much I'm tipping when I visit other sites"). I personally don't mind having it this way, since people could catch who I'm tipping by looking over my shoulder while I'm on www.gittip.com anyway. When we have things like, say, #1167, or #1215, this problem will likely exist there too.

[nobodxbodon]

AFAIK it's done.

[mattbk]

@nobodxbodon, you should check the grtp.co repo amd reticket widget stuff there if it needs to be.

[nobodxbodon]

@mattbk actually I checked the one served on shields.io, and seemed it's showing amount receiving. Thus I closed this one. Sorry I should have made it clear.