<div dir="ltr">I agree it depends. I believe a good measure is the purpose user expects from each widget. There are cases when he waits for just some information and cases when he always wants any information.<br><br>Taskbar is one example of first case (and works exactly like I suggested for Device Notifier): if there's no app running, there's no track from taskbar being there and normally user is ok with that, he just expects to notice it when he starts an app. So, if he he does it and taskbar still shows nothing, *then* you'll see him looking for taskbar plasmoid.<br>
<br>The opposite case is a NetworkManager: once user has one there he always wants to know info about the connection, even if the computer is disconnected (that is, in this case, disconnection is a valuable information).<br>
<br>I believe Device Notifier is in the first case: user normally expects it to notify about devices recently plugged in, like its name and its dialog well say and like it behaves (only popup the dialog when something gets in, never on getting out). That means, unlike NetworkManager, disconnections are not relevant and, as so, no devices is not a notification user is normally interested in. He wants it to notify and give access to stuff that hit in.<br>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/10/17 Aaron J. Seigo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aseigo@kde.org" target="_blank">aseigo@kde.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Friday 17 October 2008, Janz wrote:<br>
> What do you think?<br>
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i wonder if this would cause people to wonder 'where it went' and try and add<br>
it back? it's not quite the same as notifications ... or maybe it is ..<br>
*wobbles on the fence*<br>
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