[Panel-devel] Adding applets and event effect

[Thomas Georgiou]

On Thursday 18 October 2007 11:12:56 am Sven Burmeister wrote:
> Hello!
>
> When the user adds an applet and the desktop is covered by other windows
> there is no visible feedback that the applet has been added. I think it
> would be nice if the user would get that feedback in order to know that the
> applet has been added and where it has been added.
>
> Further, there are plasmoids such as the solidnotifier but it also applies
> to e.g. a "new email applet" that need to get the user's attention on an
> event.
>
> For both these issues mentioned above, would it be possible to e.g. have
> the plasmoid come to the front and then fade into the background after 2
> seconds?
This is probably not possible in 4.0.

But what about having the desktop toolbox slide out a little animation/flash 
color to indicate stuff?

Thomas Georgiou