Plasma systray jobs default to off?

[Casper Clemence]

Slightly off the point and has probably already been discussed but
replacing the "(i)" icon with an animated icon (eg, spinning gear)
would probably be sufficient to alert the user that something is _in
progress_. Of course that assumes the systray is visible to the user
at that time. :)


2009/3/5 Rob Scheepmaker <r.scheepmaker at student.utwente.nl>:
> Hello everybody,
>
> Currently the plasma systray displays notifications and jobs. Both features can
> be enabled or disabled separately through the plasma-desktop-appletrc. In 4.2
> both default to true. While the notifications work very well and have no real
> regressions compared to the passive popup notifications, the jobs still have
> some usability issues and regressions. We've discussed the systemtray on
> Tokamak and came up with a lot of stuff that can make the way jobs are handled
> a lot better. This won't help for 4.2 though.
> The main problems are that the plasma jobs display less information (no ETA,
> moving directories displays 0B/0B in stead of x/y directories) and the auto
> hiding confuses quite some users who think the job has finished when it's
> hidden, and don't notice that the "i" indicates that there are still jobs
> running.
> I think we should, for 4.2.2 either default the display of jobs to off, or find
> a way to fix the problems and regressions. I would like to know what you think
> about this suggestion.
>
> Regards,
> Rob
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