Review Request 126688: RFC: [Device Notifier] Provide inline feedback

[Kai Uwe Broulik]

> On Jan. 11, 2016, 8:12 nachm., Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
> > Someone suggested to style it like this: https://i.imgur.com/nPVhWr9.png
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> > While I'm not a huge fan of that excessive green background I agree that perhaps the message should be more prominently displayed, ie. moving back to showing the icon next to the message and maybe adding a faint highlight behind the item.
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> Heiko Tietze wrote:
>     Better than coloring or higlighting parts of the UI you improve positioning and spacing of controls. That means in this case to indent the device information.
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> Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
>     Indent what? where?
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> Heiko Tietze wrote:
>     Sorry, I was completely wrong. The term 'style' put me to the wrong track, but actually you wanted to indicate the selection. Well done.

I now made it so the selection rectangle shows up behind the device that shows a message and slowly disappears (3s), I think that works nicely.


- Kai Uwe


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On Jan. 11, 2016, 4:19 nachm., Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 11, 2016, 4:19 nachm.)
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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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> Instead of showing a detached status bar with the device name, show the message below the device.
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> When removing a device, device notifier will pop up and a "You can now safely remove this device" message will show up; after 5 seconds the message and the device will disappear. When trying to unmount a device and it fails, device notifier will show up with an error message that will stay there until device notifier is closed or another message appears.
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> This review consists of two patches: one for fixing the device notifications engine's wording (I'm open to better verbalizations) and one for the device notifier
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> Diffs
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>   applets/devicenotifier/package/contents/ui/DeviceItem.qml a410e25 
>   applets/devicenotifier/package/contents/ui/FullRepresentation.qml 9e9aa25 
>   applets/devicenotifier/package/contents/ui/StatusBar.qml ba827c3 
>   applets/devicenotifier/package/contents/ui/devicenotifier.qml 29cdaca 
>   dataengines/devicenotifications/ksolidnotify.h fac8cc1 
>   dataengines/devicenotifications/ksolidnotify.cpp 3935ba3 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126688/diff/
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> Testing
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> There a still a couple of glitches:
> - the layout doesn't properly reset at times (eg. the delegate height doesn't update) or fails to show certain items (also looks like a Qt bug)
> - sometimes the delegates suddenly overlap each other beacuse the section thing gets confused when the one item is already gone in the model (looks like a Qt bug)
> - the "no devices" heading doesn't know that there's still a pseudo-device there
> - it cannot actually highlight the device that was safely removed (it's no longer part of the model and thus has no index), we could do a hack for this though
> - the message doesn't disappear reliably or spontaneously re-appears
> - depending on your screen dpi you sometimes get a black and white Info icon but the error thing is always red, there's a smaller variant for the former but not the latter apparently, also it seems we lack a proper "task done" icon, Oxygen had one
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> File Attachments
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> Failed to mount
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2016/01/09/8e7142b2-38a9-4867-a067-0e6cdbcaa076__devicenotifierinlinefeedback1.png
> Safely remove
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2016/01/09/a43199cf-36a3-4337-9843-cb7375462c57__devicenotifierinlinefeedback2.png
> Emblem icon
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2016/01/10/607af6d4-7533-4b1f-b483-182afe9b4173__devicenotifierinlinefeedback3.png
> Emblem-error
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2016/01/11/cf96b627-535d-404a-9330-61b171ebda3b__devicenotifierinlinefeedback4.png
> emblem-information
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2016/01/11/1ee27871-65f8-4fc2-ae43-1c31a197578d__devicenotifierinlinefeedback5.png
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> Thanks,
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> Kai Uwe Broulik
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