My progress

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 14 January 2009, Marco Martin wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 January 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > this would probably mean creating a small Plasma::Message class or (even
> > re- using Plasma::ToolTipContent perhaps?) and allow plasmoids to queue
> > such messages with the Applet class. the Applet class would then display
> > it in a "plasma" way (what does that mean? i don't know for sure, but we
> > can work that out together; perhaps an overlay on the plasmoid itself if
> > it is big enough, perhaps a tooltip type thing, perhaps a notification in
> > the system tray,...?)
>
> hmm woudn't this mean duplicating knotify in a similar-but-not-quite way?

it's not meant as a replacement for notifications, but rather a widget 
appropriate replacement for dialog boxes ... 

good example is folderview when it can't load the folder (doesn't exist, 
network down, whatever). that functionality should be available to all 
widgets.

the weather widget in kdrevew uses a KMessagBox right now, because it's easy 
to do, but that causes all sorts of problems: it doesn't look Plasma and it 
blocks mouse interaction with the rest of the desktop.

it'll also give us a nice simple bit of API to give scripters.

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