RFC: Put notifications in sidepanel like widget explorer

[Martin Klapetek]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 4:34 PM, kainz.a <kainz.a at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2015-10-20 22:16 GMT+02:00 Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com>:
> > On Tuesday 20 October 2015, Martin Klapetek wrote:
> >> Basically the idea is to reinvent the notifications in Plasma a bit
> >> and create a kind of notification center.
> >>
> >> My plan would be to get a VDG design and then work on it for
> >> Plasma 5.6.
>
> I like that you would ask first the VDG. I also ask in our group some
> times ago if we should think about the notifications and the first
> result was no they work nice as it is now. the only thing is that the
> "sections" are a little bit confused.
>
> Overall I'm not very happy how some plasmoids scale e.g. most of the
> time you can say move it in an panel or show it on the desktop. and
> when you show it on the desktop the scaling isn't that nice as it
> should be so in my point of view I would focus on the scaling. so that
> the user can say I want to have the notifications on the desktop or on
> an hidden big side panel or as it is now.
>
> what do you think?
>

Having the applet in a hidden panel could work, but hidden panels are
a bit clumsy (I have one). Plus it allows the user to mess it up easily
and then the intended notification experience would be gone.

Putting it into that plasma-window-sidebar would allow us to make
certain assumptions about where it is positioned and about its
constraints and the code wouldn't have to worry about other cases.
That all would allows us to really focus on a great notifications
experience.

The current applet could stay around as an alternative. It's there, it works
for the most part, imo no reason to remove it altogether.

Cheers
-- 
Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
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