> 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 :\
>
I agree 100%. Having format X/Y means that users must learn (and care
about) what X is, and what Y is. Do users really need all that info?
Just show one number, which is how many notifications are
remaining/pending/active/whatever.
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Dotan Cohen
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