On Monday 06 April 2009, Rob Scheepmaker wrote: > * job widget layout. I don't know about the rest of you, but I think this > could be improved. The widget takes up quite some space vertically. I'm not > sure how we can keep the widget compact while still showing all the > information (we'll need to add the ETA too). Any ideas?
tooltips, "More info >>" link or just not care? :) > * job completed action. As discussed at Tokamak, we'll need to add an extra > action to the JobView (and a slot to KJob) interface to allow, besides > suspend, kill, and resume, an action that can be invoked after the job is > finished. Kio could use this to provide an 'open' action to open the > copied/moved file, or it's containing directory in case of multiple files. > It should probably also provide a way to set a message for both this > action, and the description of what has just finished. makes sense ... > * when a job is completed, replace the job widget with a > notificationwidget, showing the 'completed message' (hmm, we could just use > infoMessage for this, and let kio set a more sensible messages when a job > completes (like "finished copying 5 files from <url>"), and showing the > finished job action. We could add those notifications to an ExtenderGroup > that contains the text "x completed jobs" and a "clear" button that empties > this group. Wait, I'll draft up a extremely beautifull mockup and attach > it. > Problem: it would be very nice if this would also work across reboots, > which isn't the case if the kjob handles this finished action. Most of the > time, this action will just open an application with a certain set of > arguments, so maybe we should just provide the name of an application + > command line arguments in a string. Then the systray would just contain a > firefox like completed jobs history, with open buttons that still work > after a reboot. yes.. that'd probably work and also probably be easier to allow for custom actions. > * An animated icon of some sort when jobs are running, instead of the "i" > icon. Discussed at tokamak, and makes it clearer when there are actually > jobs running. We should probably also show a tooltip when hovering this > icon. This icon still needs to be designed. what about the busy widget we have? we could just use that, with a number in the middle of it showing how many jobs are currently being processed? -- 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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