Notifications Theming

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 10 March 2009, Trever Fischer wrote:
> 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.
so you won't be able to stack them anymore together. is really difficult 
already to have that stacked effect good looking and far from perfect

it's true that notification now are perhaps a bit in your face, but i think 
making themeven more different from all the rest would just make things worse

>
> 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.