[kde-guidelines] Styleguide: Notifications (Was: KStyleguide)

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Tuesday 31 December 2013 13:11:08 Heiko Tietze wrote:
> On Monday 30 December 2013, 17:11:26 David Edmundson wrote:
> > Sorry for the incredibly late reply:
> Luckily I've seen it ;-).
> 
> > ++
> > 
> > Maybe a limit on the number of actions, the API allows you to set an
> > infinite amount. Anything more than 2 is rather silly.
> 
> Actions in terms of notifications? Wouldn't it be up to the service to limit
> the number of shown information? And per application: Many notifications
> sounds like a bad workflow. An example could be KTp on/off behavior which
> is directly related to the program and rather be indicated per flashing
> icon (the default setting and what users configure are different things).
> 
> > > * Notifications disappear after a short period automatically (unless the
> > > cursor hovers over them), but can be closed by the user at any point.
> > > * Stack multiple notifications vertically.
> > > * Provide access to the configuration for each notification per button
> > > next to the close button.
> > 
> > I don't think there is any need to this section.
> > 
> > There are two sides to notifications.
> > A client (the app sending notifications) and the server that displays
> > them.
> > 
> > The client does not display the notification itself.
> > 
> > There are many many clients so we need to have guidelines, we don't
> > need to have guidelines on how the server works because there's only
> > one of them in Plasma. (well 2 if you count the frickin' awesome
> > Colibri)
> > 
> > It's also very possible that the KDE application is run from within
> > Gnome/Unity/Whatever where we do not have any knowledge of or power
> > over the notification server.
> 
> This was our starting point last year based on
> https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110389/. At least the last guideline is
> relevant for a consistent UI. And, as discussed below, the first one too.

I think what David meant was "In Plasma notifications, we get e.g. the 
notification configuration button automatically whereas in other DEs, we can't 
get it at all, so it's no use telling the applicationd developers to 
implement, because they have no say in it"