problem with popup message and auto-deletion

Aaron J. Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Tue Dec 21 10:55:15 CET 2010


On Tuesday, December 21, 2010, Marco Martin wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 December 2010, Aaron Lewis wrote:
> > > * use the timeout feature; so you could put your fortune app to time
> > > out the notification in, say, 5 minutes. or 30 minutes, if you prefer.
> > > :) that should fix your immediate issue (see: kdialog --help | grep
> > > passive)
> > 
> > Well , i think timeout has nothing to do with this problem , doesn't
> > matter how long a message will be displayed , it just shouldn't be
> > stored.
> > 
> > > * introduce an importance level indicator, perhaps the one in the
> > > galago spec expanded to something more useful, in KNotify
> > 
> > This should be a solution.
> 
> maybe how long is stored could become a fnction of how long is displaed?

it could; or we could add another hint to notifications that directs that. 
shouldn't be hard.. who wants to give it a try, to push notification state-of-
the-art a bit further? :)

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