Review Request 124409: Begin fading the OSD immediately

[Martin Gräßlin]

> On July 21, 2015, 9:03 a.m., Heiko Tietze wrote:
> > Nice presentation, as always. But I'm not so sure that the realization of fading out quickly meets the needs from 'OSD is disturbing'. The second when the OSD is shown is still annoying (interaction during the fading might restart) and those who want to 'read' it need to reactivate the OSD. The issue could be solved by some kind of 'dismiss' or 'don't show again' interaction. Another simple way is to hide immediately on any key down, on mouse click etc. If that all is not possible at the OSD itself, perhaps because of security issues, a dialog (KCM) could help. And last but least please consider to bind this feature to activities.

> Another simple way is to hide immediately on any key down, on mouse click etc. If that all is not possible at the OSD itself, perhaps because of security issues

For technical reasons the OSD is not able to recognize any (global) key or mouse click events on Wayland and on X11 only with a huge amount of nasty code. Also I don't think that this is a solution to the "annoying" - if I watch a video and change the volume through kdeconnect I don't have a keyboard.

Anyway I would dismiss the "annoying" argument all together. If I compare to the amount of OSDs my TV, audio receiver is putting on the screen this is a really good OSD.


- Martin


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On July 20, 2015, 10:19 p.m., Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
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> (Updated July 20, 2015, 10:19 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma and KDE Usability.
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> Repository: plasma-workspace
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> Description
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> This makes the OSD begin fading out over a long period of time immediately after it has shown. Makes the OSD less annoying while currently reading something or watching a video. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxmpwG-2saE
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> Diffs
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>   lookandfeel/contents/osd/Osd.qml 2288ec1 
>   shell/osd.cpp 0573d51 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/124409/diff/
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> Testing
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> Works. Quite enjoyable. As suggested by mklapetek
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> Thanks,
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> Kai Uwe Broulik
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