[KDE Usability] Review Request: Show only total remaining jobs count

[Dotan Cohen]

> First off, this is more of a personal suggestion than a bug-fix/etc :)
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> As the notification tray item is already such a tiny thing and has newly introduced (cool) animation effects for running job's completion progresses, squeezing a label within like "running / total" only crowds it more. The animation looks pretty weird around it.
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> Why not just show total remaining jobs and keep counting down at that, much like those loading screens in the old movies that went "5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.. (i).". This so cause at every job completion a notification event is anyway supposed to fire (whether user has set to receive it or not) and the shown number also indicates automatically the no. of jobs left to do -- the user will anyway have to click the icon for detailed information on what is/how many are actually progressing. So lets just show total no. of remaining jobs to run. Comments?
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> P.s. Something can also be done to enhance the look of those numbers ("1/2" or even if its just "2"). But the result shouldn't hinder the bg animation, and I can't think of what will do both :\
>

I agree 100%. Having format X/Y means that users must learn (and care
about) what X is, and what Y is. Do users really need all that info?
Just show one number, which is how many notifications are
remaining/pending/active/whatever.


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