Ideas/Mockups for Mobile System Tray (GSoC)

[Yuen Hoe Lim]

>
> right now when you tap the systray you get another view with expanded
> icons: while would be quite easy with the statusnotifier protocol,
> wouldn't be really with plasmoid based ones (and would like to use
> plasmoids based ones quite heavily, with a popup that becomes instead
> a full screen app)
>

But the current systray's expanded view seems to work really well even with
plasmoids. Is there some special manipulating going on underneath? I thought
about having another drag-down panel at the top, but I don't know, it feels
a little funny somehow :P Another possibility might be to use a panel anyway
and trigger it's appearance when the systray is tapped, but then the mobile
systray will probably not work in the other existing shells anymore, though
it probably doesn't need to.

on the techincal side, just keep in mind we don't really have any way
> to link notifications to an owning systray icon. the infos the
>

Aw shucks. Okay, will have to rethink that one. Thanks :)

first of all: I suggest you post that somewhere public as well, so that non-
> mentors can give you feedback. :)
>

I think it already is (public). There is a checkbox that says "make public"
that I made sure to check :) If anyone is unable to see the proposal though
let me know and I'll copy it out somewhere.

For SMS, I proposed that first (huge and persistent) notification because
that's the way one my old phone does it, and I personally thought it was a
really good idea if it was primarily a 'phone' device because it's usually
in my pocket so I actually want it to make a big deal out of things that
happen, so that even if I somehow didn't hear the alert or feel the
vibration when I next take out the phone I immediately see ah! new SMS, and
in one button-press can reply/etc.

Was thinking a dismiss-all button could immediately free up the screen but
the systray should probably start flashing or have a new flashing icon or
something to say "hey, you previously put away some notifications, come see
it when you're free kay?".

Another thing that could probably be done is to group notifications (since
we have application name and SMS's probably all come from the same app), so
that if someone sends you 10 SMS's you'd see just one notification that says
"You have received 10 text messages" and the button says "Go to your inbox"
instead?

yes, a modal notification is no more a notification
>

Not sure I understood this sentence >.< I suppose my first (huge and
persistent) notification is considered "modal", so this does not count as a
notification? Or? I suppose now that I think about it it does work more like
a modal dialog than a notification, but I just thought it made sense for a
particular kind of use.

think that incoming phone call is important enough to basacly drag your full
> atention to it.
>

Yeah, the more I think about it the more I think N900's way of dealing with
calls made the most sense - Incoming call -> Full screen phone app covers
the world. So I guess we could exclude the incoming call event from
notifications?

Thanks a lot for the feedback/comments by the way!

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Jason "moofang" Lim Yuen Hoe
http://yuenhoe.co.cc/
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