RFC: Put notifications in sidepanel like widget explorer

[Helio Chissini de Castro]

You're talking something similar as Windows 10 ?

http://images.digitalcitizen.life/sites/digitalcitizen.life/files/img/win10_notifications/notification5.png

I can tell i liked in some way what they did

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Martin Klapetek <martin.klapetek at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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