Notifications Theming

[Trever Fischer]

On Tuesday 10 March 2009 12:15:53 pm Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Friday 06 March 2009, Trever Fischer wrote:
> > Are there any plans to, erm, extend the Extender class and provide some
> > custom SVG elements for notifications?
>
> Rob's already commented on the animations and current theming system, so
> i'll skip that bit, but...
>
> ... why do we want notifications (or jobs, for that matter) to look
> different?

Notifications/jobs are unique elements of a desktop, so they should be allowed 
to be styled as such. If someone has some really super-slick idea for how 
notifications should look, they can easily theme them without having to worry 
about all other extenders looking strange. For instance, I'd like the default 
plasma theme to have transparent notifications instead of using the opaque 
extender SVG. imho, extenders are just generic widgets with special behavior. 
Notifications are special widgets with special behavior. They're very distinct.

And aren't notifications meant to be able to grab a user's attention? If they 
look like every other UI element, they have a tendency blend right in.

Of course, all of this can be considered moot, since someone just has to write 
their own notifications plasmoid.
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