New devicenotifier moved to kdereview

[Giulio Camuffo]

2009/10/4 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>

> On October 4, 2009, Jacopo De Simoi wrote:
> >  now, we believe that it is ready for merging into trunk. Of course we
> need
> >  your feedback first, so grab it, try it out and tell us what you think!
>
> i still don't see the need for either of the popup control options. why
> should
> we care how long it pops up?
>
> i can think of two use cases for the "show pop up when device is inserted":
>
> a) the user simply doesn't want that behaviour but still wants access to
> their
> devices
>
> b) the user has set up the notifier to not display some devices and so
> doesn't
> want it popping up when those devices are inserted
>
> (b) is probably easily done by simply not popping up the window if the
> device
> is hidden in it.
>

if the device inserted is hidden the popup doesn't show up, it doesn't
matter if that option is enabled or not. so the usecase behind that option
was (a).

>

so the question is "is (a) worth supporting?" personally, i don't think so.
> the point of this thing is as a device *notifier*. it's not just a device
> *lister*.
>

but in the real world the main point of this applet is to access the
devices, because if i insert a cd or a usb drive i don't need the computer
to tell me that i inserted it, i already know that!

>
> so, there's the possibility that the user has more than one of these on
> their
> screen. why? because they've hidden some devices in one and others in
> another
> to "sort them out". in that case i can see why they may not want to have
> them
> all pop up when they plug a device in. so the whole "show only certain
> devices" feature no leads us to having people who want yet more features to
> deal with the side effects of that feature.
>
> *sigh*
>
> what's the bet that when we release this widget someone looks at the
> options
> and then requests "can i show only fixed devices?" it's something of a
> pandora's box that is being opened up with this set of options.
>
> my suggestion is this:
>
> turn the "show removable devices only" option into a combobox that offers
> three options: "Removable devices", "Non-removable devices", "All devices"
> and
> have it default to first one. the label could be "Show:"
>
> that's a good idea, it brings more order too.


> remove both the popup control options and make the popup only happen when
> the
> device is actually to be shown in the notifier.
>
> let's see if we get any significant feedback requesting popup controls with
> that. once we offer features we can't easily take them back, no matter how
> much pain they cause us. we can easily add features later, however, if it
> turns out they are really needed.
>
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