Review Request: Some improments to the system tray notifications.

Rob Scheepmaker r.scheepmaker at student.utwente.nl
Tue Nov 4 01:43:52 CET 2008


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Review request for Plasma.


Summary
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I noticed a couple of issues in the way system tray notifications are currently displayed:
* The action buttons are hardcoded, and inconsistent with the rest of the buttons in plasma.
Solution: use Plasma::PushButtons.
* The close action should be a graphical 'X'.
Solution: use the just added showCloseButton() to display an X in the drag handle of notifications that don't specify any actions.
* The icon us quite large and takes up a lot of space.
Solution: remove the icon from the notification itself and use it as the icon of the extenderitem.
* The fixed size of the notifications make small messages take too much space, but also isn't enough to display larger messages.
Solution: make the size hint depend on the size of the message. Make sure each notification is always displayed entirely.

While making these changes the current split in two classes became a bit awkward to work with, so I also merged these two classes into one QGW, and cleaned up a bit. I think that with this patch notifications are more usable, and the code is a bit cleaner, but I would very much like to hear your feedback.


Diffs
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  /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/systemtray/CMakeLists.txt
  /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/systemtray/ui/notificationwidget.h
  /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/systemtray/ui/notificationwidget.cpp
  /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/systemtray/ui/notifytextitem.h
  /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/systemtray/ui/notifytextitem.cpp

Diff: http://reviewboard.vidsolbach.de/r/256/diff


Testing
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seems to work allright.


Screenshots
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notifications
  http://reviewboard.vidsolbach.de/r/256/s/91/


Thanks,

Rob



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