[Kget] [PATCH] KGet Tray Icon and its Overlay

[Lukas Appelhans]

Am Montag 27 April 2009 15:51:22 schrieb Fabian Henze:
> On Sunday the 26th April 2009 13:00:39 UTC, Lukas Appelhans wrote:
> > > I still think, that a blinking animation is not the right way to go.
> > > Maybe we should ask the usability folk?
> >
> > Yep, I think that'd maybe be nice...
>
> I talked to a few people in freenodes #kde-usability and all of them
> agreed, that blinking is bad, but instead some other process indicator
> would be a good idea. Someone came up with sth. similar to the amarok tray
> icon (like this one: http://g.imagehost.org/0582/amarok_and_kget.png).
> However its hard to see if the song (or the download in our case) is 20% or
> 80% complete. So he suggested to use an overlay, which grows clockwise
> (using QPainter::drawPie). I hope you understand what I am trying to
> explain ;-)
> I am not very good at creating mockups, so I will just try to implement it
> when I have time (most likely on Thursday).
> What do you think?
>
> > > I know, but what for? If its just shown one time on an area of 16x16
> > > pixels the user wont see it in more than 90% of the cases.
> >
> > Yeah, but it indicates that kget changed the status... dunno if that
> > makes sense after all, but I have to say I like it... :)
>
> I think KGet will change the status only on user request, so he will know
> anyway, no? ^^
>
> > > In my opinion an animation would generate too much CPU wakeups for no
> > > good reason.
> >
> > Well that's a point of opinion, why do we need animations at all etc...?
> > :P
>
> Well imo animations are okay, but they should not be active all the time.
> Matthew Garret wrote a guide to good power management practices, in which
> he writes:
> "The hardware used to display a static image on the screen is the same
> regardless of whether the image was generated with the graphics card's 2D
> or 3D hardware. Regardless of the number of graphical effects used on the
> desktop, the common case is for the desktop to be static. Composited and
> traditional desktops will generally consume the same amount of power. "
> In short this means: If you display an animation all the time, you will
> keep the graphics harware busy.
> [source: http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/power/good_practices.html]
>
>
> -- Fabian Henze
Hey!

Mmh ok... well a pie might be too "unpolished", so we should think about some 
cool way to show it as nice graphic... mmh...

Lukas