Amarok Statusbars

[Bart Cerneels]

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2007/11/27, Jeff Mitchell <kde-dev at emailgoeshere.com>:
> 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

Good idea, but a one-look overview of all current operations does have
it's merits.
This can be accomplished with a hover-over popup on the status bar.

Bart