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

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday 27 November 2008, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> - No notification when a task is done, the systray icon vanishing is not
>   enough of a visual hint for me

+1

> - the systray icon could be animated while a job is running, saying
> "something is going on here"

probably useful.

> - an option to keep the jobwindow open after task completed would be nice
>   (partly ties in with the previous point)

i don't know if we need to keep them open as much as provide a summary list of 
the finished items?

> - 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

mm... perhaps something right inside the window, or only when the user 
manually calls it forward?

> - additional information (remaining time, for example)

+1

i have a number of ideas for 4.3 (the obvious one being "able to show it in a 
floating window when pulled out")

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