System tray notification

[Andreas Marschke]

On Monday 30 November 2009 16:43:05 Andras Mantia wrote:
> Marco Martin wrote:
> > true, the problem is that sophisticate communication like "the mail
> > associated to that notification has been read" is totally impossible in
> > the spec (and probably quite out of scope too, since it would require too
> > much burden to the applications themselves, situation that would make
> > sure it would be misused)
> 
> Sure, I know, and I don't expect to solve it that way. I just pointed out
> what is the problem from the users POV.
> 
> > what i think could be done is, when exploring old notifications with the
> > tabbar, they could be marked as "read" and the subsequent time they will
> > all appear collapsed, while the "new" ones expanded as usual
> 
> Yes, that's what I suggested.
> 
> > they are not kept "forever" but half an hour. what is still to be done is
> > to make the expire time dependant whether the computer is in use or not,
> > like it's already done with the job progress
> 
> I don't know what should be done. Probably if the notifications appear
>  while the computer is idle (eg. screensaver is running), they should not
>  disappear. If it in uses, I think half an hour is just too much, several
>  minutes should be enough. I was annoyed with the old behavior when I saw a
>  notification, but didn't have time to read it, but I don't think I'd be
>  interested in notifications from half an hour ago. 5-10 minutes might work
>  better. Of course, this is my opinion, in the (old) KDE spirit, I'd ask
>  for a configurable timeout. ;) (Yes, a good default is better.)
> 
> Andras
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AFAIK the notifications do have a clickable cross in the upper corner and a 
dragable title bar so basically no worries right?