I've prepared a storyboard with my concept for notification popups (explained in my previous post):
http://megaswf.com/view/c72134c5318f9aee8cfe2b3a99c3fa0a.html I've changed my original "group" idea to a "pile": several popups get visibly piled at the same place. This doesn't take much space, and still shows how many simultaneous alerts arrive. 2010/1/27 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On January 26, 2010, Diego Moya wrote: >> 2010/1/26 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > what i said is that showing all the previous notifications and jobs when a new > notification is shown in the automatic popup is not desirable. Yes, I agree with that. My idea was not to show all previous notifications but just the new ones as soon as they arrive. Thus each alert would create a popup exactly once, right when it's created, and never again. > when clicking the (i) icon, i'd like to be able to see the last active > notification of each application. e.g. if kopete and kontact have both sent I'd like to see the last active notification of each application even if I don't click the (i) icon. This is the best way to know that there's a Low Battery warning even if Kopete has sent a message one milisecond later. Showing only one message a time, if the two messages are together or I'm not looking when the first one appears, I would never notice there have been two alerts instead of one - so I wouldn't know to click the (i) icon. > out a notification to me, i should be able to see both if i purposefully click > the (i). however, if kopete has sent 10 notifications, i should probably only > see the most recent one, and be able to scroll through the older ones. How long would you keep older warnings, and how would you layout them? Say 20 applications have sent several messages each in the last hour. Should the (i) icon show 20 boxes with 20 scrollbars? >> recognizes already viewed notices (i.e. a familiar "blog" model). > which seems backwards: if i explicitly ask for the notification to be shown, > i'd like to be saved digging through all the kopete notifications just to find > the last appointment notification from kontact. Fair enough. I'm trying to prevent the user from missing any one alert, which could happen if the same application sends two notifications together. I think that putting together several fast messages sent from the same application, should be handled by the notification system, not left to individual applications like Kopete. > this forces user interaction; notifications are often passive. simply showing > a number and activating the (i) should be enough, as we currently do. Ok, as long as the number is reset to 0 after the user clicks the (i). I haven't looked if this is what happens now (and I'm now away from home so I can't check). _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
