Questions about plasma notifications

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Mon Mar 15 14:15:35 CET 2010


On Monday 15 March 2010, Diego Moya wrote:
> 
> > Use case of this: sending a picture over bluetooth from our mobile to
> > our superb laptop. The user accepts the file transfer. As it's a small
> > picture, and the phone is 10cm away from the laptop, the transfer is
> > nearly instantaneous. No progress dialog is shown. However, the user
> > still wants to be able to know when the transfer has been completed,
> > and to be able to access to the received file, but the "finished"
> > notification never comes.
> 
> There should be two different notifications: one small feedback when the
> transfer lasts a few seconds and the user's attention is still on the task,
> and one prominent "Finished task" message if the user had time to change
> tasks and might be attending anything else.

we can do this way:
when a short job finishes, the i icon flashes in some way, no notification 
popup is shown, but in the popup that can be manually opened and that has the 
history of notifications that notification is actually fully shown

Cheers,
Marco Martin


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