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Review request for Plasma and usability.
Summary
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First off, this is more of a personal suggestion than a bug-fix/etc :)
As the notification tray item is already such a tiny thing and has newly
introduced (cool) animation effects for running job's completion progresses,
squeezing a label within like "running / total" only crowds it more. The
animation looks pretty weird around it.
Why not just show total remaining jobs and keep counting down at that, much
like those loading screens in the old movies that went "5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1..
(i).". This so cause at every job completion a notification event is anyway
supposed to fire (whether user has set to receive it or not) and the shown
number also indicates automatically the no. of jobs left to do -- the user will
anyway have to click the icon for detailed information on what is/how many are
actually progressing. So lets just show total no. of remaining jobs to run.
Comments?
P.s. Something can also be done to enhance the look of those numbers ("1/2" or
even if its just "2"). But the result shouldn't hinder the bg animation, and I
can't think of what will do both :\
Diffs
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/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/generic/applets/notifications/ui/busywidget.cpp
1121172
Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/3857/diff
Testing
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Ran several jobs to see it count down after the notification pops up. Trivial
change I think?
Screenshots
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Icon with just total displayed, over the bg animation -- instead of running /
total.
http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/3857/s/383/
Thanks,
Harsh
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