RFC: Put notifications in sidepanel like widget explorer

[Martin Graesslin]

On Monday, February 22, 2016 9:05:06 PM CET Marco Martin wrote:
> On Monday 22 February 2016 18:39:02 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > > changes, so when the default systray will be changed to the new
> > > implementation in 5.7 it will look as near ar possible to the current
> > > one,
> > > with any UI changes for 5.8)
> > 
> > Why is that? To prevent the introduction of bugs?
> 
> yes, that's what unfortunately too many years of experience told me.

Yeah, that's also why I am very careful to implement all features from KWin on 
X11 in KWin on Wayland. No regressions to not have people burn the technology, 
because we removed feature foo.

> 
> the first time you introduce something with a new technology, it will
> introduce regressions no matter what. People are in general resistent to UI
> changes as well.
> technology changes + regressions + a different, unfamiliar ui is the sure
> recipe to make users hate the whole thing and have the next neponadi (and
> boy plasma had to work hard to get out of that after KDE 4.0, and we are
> still on the recovery phase)

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