On Thursday 05 March 2009, Rob Scheepmaker wrote: > On Thursday 05 March 2009 18:48:08 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > On Thursday 05 March 2009, Rob Scheepmaker wrote:
> > moreover, the job presentation is not _that_ bad and it can be disabled > > if using the config dialog if they don't like it. which means it's really > > not that big of a deal. > > I agree, the current presentation isn't that bad. Still there are some > regressions, and problems. The problem is, that the config dialog doesn't > offer those options in 4.2. That didn't make it before the freeze. Else I > would totally agree, since it's then easy enough for the user to disable, > if there is certain functionality they miss or if they don't 'get' the way > the systray jobs work (the "i"). we can ask on the i18n list if we can backport those two strings. > The way the jobs might confuse some users less, is if we don't autohide the > popup while jobs are still in progress. That's a quite trivial patch, but > it would steal that screen real estate permanently although the user can > still close the popup with the "i" button. I think that might already solve > a lot of the problems people report with the current implementation. Can we > do such a change in behavior in a minor release though? we can if we feel that's a good idea. > Do you think this might be a good idea? i think it assumes that: * people actually care about a download in progress all the time (which i don't agree with) * people will easily figure out how to collapse it so it doesn't annoy them (i also don't think the icon is clear enough in that respect; a standard bit of UI for "collapse this popup" for passive popup plasmoids would be a nice start there) i personally think it makes more sense to leave it as is unless we do some more major surgery on it. aka 4.3. oh, something i'd *love* to see is downloads that complete pop back up so the user gets a "this one is done!" confirmation. > I don't want to spend a lot of time on this, but if > there's an easy way to improve on the issues in 4.2, I think it would be > worth it. sure :) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software
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