[Bug 195748] New: Unusable notification display eg when copying files

[krienke at uni-koblenz.de]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195748

           Summary: Unusable notification display eg when copying files
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Compiled Sources
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: krienke at uni-koblenz.de


Version:           4.2.89svn977047 (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

Hello,

in the current kde4.3 beta notifications have become very "brief" so that they
are actually useless. If for example I start two copy jobs using dolphin. Both
jobs just copy some files from one local directory to another. The
notifications then show me two running jobs in form of a progressbar above the
"i" icon. However there is no other information provided, so I cannot say which
progress bar shows the progress of which copy job? I also cannot stop one of
the copy jobs if I want which is a must have. And there is no display of how
many files/directories are still left. So actually everything is missing you
need to have, makeing the progess bar completely useless.

Another problem with current solution is, that one can either choose to
automatically close each notification after a while or you can choose to close
them manually. Since there are many possible notifications and some of them are
less unimportant but others are important I would vote for a way to treat
different classes of notifications in a different way in repesct to the fact
how there are closed. E.g. a notification of kmail that it requestets access to
kwallet should be closed after a while since I can see the kwallet window in
this case so I know what to do. On the other hand copying files to my USB-stick
I want to see the progress so this notification should remain visible until I
close it manually or until the copy jobs has finished.   At the moment such a
konfiguration is impossible, but I think its important for usability to be able
to treat different notifications in a different way. Especially copy progress
is very important and at the moment its treated very poorly.

Thanks
Rainer

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