Review Request: Add option to not show popup when devices are added

[Simon Persson]

On Tuesday 18 October 2011 14.47.00 Jacopo De Simoi wrote:
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> I am not sure if I actually would allow to block the device notifier from
> popping up altogheter; If a user doesn't want the notifier to popup for a
> specific device she can simply hide it by right-clicking on the device
> item.

I respect the maintainers control over what should be configurable and what 
should just be good defaults, but just to clarify the scenarios that I'm 
thinking of:

- User usually has a file manager running and uses that to access external 
drives, notifier popup is distracting (and on small screens it will cover 
useful areas of running applications). Hiding devices is not an option since 
the notifier is still a convenient way to start a file manager in the correct 
place in case no file manager was running. Also many times it will be usb 
sticks from colleagues/friends that have not been plugged in and hidden 
before.

-User usually just charges her phone in the laptop, but occasionally wants to 
import pictures from it in digikam and the notifier is a great way to do that.

Personally, I happily trade not having a popup showing against clicking one 
more time on the occations that I want to use the notifier. Actually I had 
removed the notifier from my panel because it was too annoying, but then found 
that sometimes I missed having it.. so I decided to try to make it better 
instead.

Oh and first I thought about suggesting that the default should be to not 
popup.. but I realised that a mailing list is not the best place to bring that 
up.. it will just get spammed by bikesheds. So... nevermind that. :)

Thanks,
Simon

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> - Jacopo De Simoi
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> On Oct. 11, 2011, 1:30 p.m., Simon Persson wrote:
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> > (Updated Oct. 11, 2011, 1:30 p.m.)
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> > Review request for Plasma, Giulio Camuffo and Jacopo De Simoi.
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> > Description
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> > Use case:
> > User 1 frequently connects her phone to her laptop to charge the
> > battery, she has no intention of accessing files on the phone and
> > thinks the device notifier popping up (even for a few seconds) is
> > distracting. When accessing files on an external drive she usually uses
> > an already running instance of her file manager and again would prefer
> > the notifier to not pop up. She keeps the notifier in her panel for the
> > case of easily watching dvd's and downloading photos from a camera
> > memory card. In those cases she thinks it's enough that the icon
> > appears with an exclamation mark in her systray, she can find it there.
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> > Diffs
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> >   plasma/generic/applets/devicenotifier/configurationpage.ui a916254
> >   plasma/generic/applets/devicenotifier/devicenotifier.h 9f3af73
> >   plasma/generic/applets/devicenotifier/devicenotifier.cpp b9dfce5
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> > Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102825/diff/diff
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> > Testing
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> > Thanks,
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> > Simon Persson