Plasma systray jobs default to off?

[Guillaume Pothier]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Rob Scheepmaker
<r.scheepmaker at student.utwente.nl> wrote:
> 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.
>

Here goes my 2cents:
I agree the current behavior (auto-hiding before the job completes) is
often misleading.
I agree that having the icon animated would help a lot... BUT... With
a dual monitor setting, let's say I have a couple dolphin windows on
screen 1 and the systray is on screen 2. Then if I do some
copying/moving operations with dolphin, I might very well not notice
that something is happenning near the systray. This is not just random
thinking, it occurred to me many times. It might also be true with
only one, large (read 30"), monitor. So I think that the dolphin
window(s) that are involved in the job should also have some kind of
progress indication. Note that they already have some: they display a
message in the status bar when the job is finished. But I think they
should also indicate the progress of the job while it executes.
That's it, thanks.
g