Idea: Window management for 4.5

[Emdek]

On 01-02-2010 at 00:43:18 Chani <chanika at gmail.com> wrote:
> On January 31, 2010 15:02:40 Emdek wrote:
>> On 31-01-2010 at 19:17:10 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
>> > On January 30, 2010, Emdek wrote:
>> >> The idea which I currently want to implement is to set for entry /  
>> icon
>> >> state which indicate that it needs attention (usually there is shown
>> >> animation) and showing widget in dialog / window / widget shown after
>> >> clicking on icon or through submenu.
>> >
>> > hm; i'm not sure i understand what you are referring to exactly. could
>> > you
>> > provide more details? thanks :)
>>
>> I mean that (if user enable option to connect notifications with tasks)
>> when there is new notification, then icon (own if cannot be connected  
>> with
>> window or that shared with task entry) starts for example blinking and
>> notification (as widget with information) is shown after clicking on  
>> icon
>> or on entry in it's context menu.
>> This is only idea for my applet, and it may be changed during
>> implementation phase.
>
> having to click to read the notification would fail very, very badly if  
> it was
> the "your computer will suspend in ten seconds" notification. :)

Sure.
Is there notification property that defines it's importance level?
Then these could be shown in different way, for example fully visible from  
start or more aggressive icon animation etc.


> it also forces the user to act (they probably can't know if they need to
> handle it until they've read it), so it's not a good idea in general.

That's why it will be optional and will default to off.


> show it
> when it arrives, *then* hide it.

It can be always an option, but I don't want to add hundred options for  
one thing that is only small addition. ;-)


> as for the rest of your ideas... i can haz mockups? :) pictures make it  
> much
> easier to understand these things.

Nope.
Screen shots will come when it will be done. ;-)
And this will be after 10.02.2010 (thesis), I hope that before end of  
March but I can't guarantee (many my other projects also want my attention  
:-D).


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Best regards,
Michał