Amarok Statusbars

[Jeff Mitchell]

On Friday 23 November 2007, Seb Ruiz wrote:
> Throughout Amarok 1.x development I was also not satisfied with the
> popup messages which we had. If anybody has been using Dolphin in kde4
> you might notice the custom statusbar which is used. I really like it.
> Simple and efficient. The message solution which they have is clever
> and pretty. It is noticeable without being intrusive. It's one major
> drawback that I can see is the inability to handle multiple operations
> (progress bars) or multiple popup messages. I imagine that we could
> somehow work around this to create a hybrid between the Amarok and
> Dolphin statusbars.

Here's a thought:

If multiple messages/operations are queued up, place left and right (an first 
and last) arrows on the very side of the statusbar.  In the middle between 
the two is a count of the number of messages/operations currently queued up.  
They should act as a FIFO queue, with messages at the front being removed at 
some set interval (if not currently being viewed).  

--Jeff