On Monday 25 January 2010, Marco Martin wrote: > howdy all, > so, based on both ersonal experience and feedbacks i'm of course stilkl not > happy on how notifications work, that's the pretty hard question of being > informative enough, vs not entirely cover the screen. > last thing i was thinking about was something that resembles rssnow: > http://imagebin.ca/view/fiFONCc.html > this would resemble the pattern of the appletbrowser, search and launch and > possibly other stuff in the future. > > -only one notification is shown at a time > -still valid notifications scrolls automatically or after arrows press, > like rssnow > bottom arrow would switch from valid to recent expired notifications > > other options would be: > -something similar but with vertical scrolling > -leave as is now, but just displaying 2-3 otifications at a time, throwing > away everything older (simpler ui, but loses significant informations) > > now, for the technical standpoint, this would mean: > all notifications in a single extenderitem? > or, would be nice to do a reimplementation of an extendergroup with > scrolling members, the problem is that members are actually children of > the extender, so no real relations between items and their group. > > this could suggest a change in how extenders work, so actually putting > extenderitems in sublayouts of the extendergroups. not sure if would be > actually a good things but would make possible groups of groups, ugly but > at least the api wouldn't lie anymore. > > opinions? comments? > would like to hear some feedback before implementing anything since each > solution would lead to a different total screwing of the current > implementation :p > > Cheers, > Marco Martin to recap, the implementation is almost done, the next big thing will be splitting it from the systray plasmoid.
this document http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/design/notifications?view=markup shows the design principles and describes -mostly- how it works right now Cheers, Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
