[PATCH] Show the job progress in separate dialog

[Andras Mantia]

Hi,

 the attached patch introduces a config option to show the job progress 
dialogs as separate dialogs. The reason is:
1) people are used to the old ones
2) the new ones, integrated into the systray notification have  some 
limitation compared to the old ones, like not being visible every time, 
so you don't know if a job stuck, finished, whatever; the information 
given is not that detailed; they disappear after the timeout, etc.

I know 2) can be improved over time, but the timeframe to 4.2 is short 
and as no new strings can be introduced, I doubt it is possible now. 
There is no GUI configuration, again because of the string freeze. The 
option is global, I don't even know if it would be possible to have both 
the separate and the integrated dialogs.
The patch doesn't react to config file changes, if requested, I can do 
that part.

There is a question what should be the default. As it is now, I'd think 
showing the separate dialogs should be the default because of 2) and 
because some bugs. Anyway the patch tries to be not intrusive, so I made 
to have the current behavior the default, so people can test in beta 
stage and report bugs. :)

Andras

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