uiserver interaction, was: Re: [PATCH] Show the job progress in separate dialog

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Thursday 27 November 2008 22:09:08 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Thursday 27 November 2008, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > 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;
>
> not being constantly visible is a bit of a feature, really. but you can
> just click on the computer icon to see them. (or drag them out of the
> extender to some other place).
>
> what would be good, however, is when they stop/die that it pops up
> automatically so you can see that.
>
> > the information
> > given is not that detailed;
>
> all the information is in the dataengine so it's possible to show it in the
> status widgets.
>
> > they disappear after the timeout, etc.
>
> click on the icon =)

Getting used to it, I'm encountering some behavioural problems, I'll list them 
here:

- No notification when a task is done, the systray icon vanishing is not 
  enough of a visual hint for me
- the systray icon could be animated while a job is running, saying "something 
  is going on here"
- an option to keep the jobwindow open after task completed would be nice 
  (partly ties in with the previous point)
- An option to keep the jobwindow visible when it looses focus. Sometime, I do 
  indeed wait for a job to be finished, and then it's annoying if the dialog 
  keeps vanishing
- additional information (remaining time, for example)

This would also be useful for the calendar, as it also is something you often 
open and compare to something else, so this is more something we need to fix 
in the extender / popupapplet. We'd probably also need something visible to 
close the extender then, so we don't frustrate people with always-on-top-
windows that are hard to get rid of.

Apart from these things, that we should iron out before 4.2 as far as 
possible, I think the uiserver / notifications in one place are really great.

How do others think about the interaction with this stuff?
-- 
sebas

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