Idea: Window management for 4.5

[Emdek]

On 01-02-2010 at 11:03:29 Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 01 February 2010, Emdek wrote:
>> 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.
>
> the problem is that there isn't. (probably if there was it would have  
> been
> badly abused by the apps btw)

Not good...
And sure, it could be abused...


> all we can do is some euristic like "oh, this one seems to talk about  
> power
> management"

Maybe yes, but there is problem with different languages.
Maybe checking application name would be more useful.
Or maybe there are categories for notifications at least?


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Best regards,
Michał