[Panel-devel] Kpanel replacement -- Container much like the Dock. More.

[James Smith]

I can see myself using Kget a lot more with something like this as well, as a 
drag and drop to the container icon would be all that is needed to queue a 
download. I hate having so many icons in the tasktray taking up space, and 
forget to use it given the least-used icon hide feature in task tray. Kget is 
not the best-integrated as it is. 

A drag and drop use would really kick ass. A drag and drop for k3b would be 
cool as well; drag 6 or 7 files to the launcher. Who needs a file selection 
dialog?

There would be so much a user could do to customise each launcher. This would 
be a killer application for Plasma. Custom uses, I can only drool at the 
prospect of scripting launchers.

I would say the kmenu should survive in the form of kickoff, with an extra 
panel devoted to knotify past top-of-screen notifications. The default 
scroll-wheel action on the container icon for Kickoff would be to scroll 
through prior notifications thereby combining into one icon the excess 
launchers (ie kmenu on steroids) and notification delivery icon replacing 
systray. A right click on any app in Kickoff adds it to the container. The 
search feature in Kickoff would be augmented to use as a run command dialog, 
typing in and pressing enter would queue up as a first result the application 
to run as typed in thereby allowing the removal of yet another useless text 
input. One click and it runs.

All in all the workspace efficiency gained would be enormous.

James

On July 3, 2007 03:36:24 pm Sven Burmeister wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Sonntag, 1. Juli 2007, James Smith wrote:
> > I can envision a knotify daemon plasmoid that sits in the container and
> > can be used to scroll through the notification history. This would in
> > concept replace the tasktray for notifications. One icon with a
> > middle-wheel scroll-through ala amarok and a single click to open up a
> > history list. I'd program the osd in plasma to allow custom actions for
> > the future, for example in the form of system daemon notifications. For
> > postfix for example, a daemon failure could be parsed with a knotify
> > plugin module via dbus to allow a daemon restart on failure or to open a
> > terminal window displaying log entries. For a new instant message, the
> > default behavior on-click would be to open a chat window, while for k3b
> > a) on a disk burn failure focus k3b or b) on a perfect burn default would
> > be to close the notification.
>
> I think this sounds really fantastic. The user could drag the plasmoid
> wherever one likes to have the notifications, i.e. the plasmoid coming to
> the top and fading back to the desktop after a few seconds. It would also
> allow eye-candy like a big animated icon while burning with k3b, kmix or
> playing songs with amarok, yet only small ones for things like kgpg or
> klipper. The icon for amarok could have several actions on it while
> hovering, like skip, play and stop and show the album-cover and elapsed
> time otherwise.
>
> Sven
>
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