Disabling Plasma progress notifications?

Jonathan echidnaman at gmail.com
Tue Mar 24 11:31:19 GMT 2009


On Tuesday 24 March 2009 5:15:06 am Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:36:47 +0100 Aurélien Gâteau 
<aurelien.gateau at canonical.com> wrote:
> >> Scott Kitterman wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:40:07 +0100 Aurélien Gâteau 
<aurelien.gateau at canonical.com> wrote:
> >>>> Yuriy Kozlov wrote:
> >>>>> 2009/3/23 Aurélien Gâteau <aurelien.gateau at canonical.com>:
> >>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I believe Plasma progress notifications should be disabled for
> >>>>>> Jaunty.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The main problem with them is that they automatically disappear
> >>>>>> after some time. Lot of users associate the disappearing of the
> >>>>>> window with the completion of the copy. When transferring to/from a
> >>>>>> pluggable device, this can easily lead to data loss.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Disabling these notifications is easy: Aaron explained it in this
> >>>>>> blog entry:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/01/todays-tip-turning-off-fancy-schm
> >>>>>>ancy.html
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Wouldn't it be almost as easy to disable the disappearing?  I do
> >>>>> think that would be an improvement, I usually end up clicking the
> >>>>> button to get the notification back anyway.
> >>>>
> >>>> Disabling the disappearing requires a patch, which may not be that
> >>>> difficult, but still more intrusive than using a configuration option.
> >>>
> >>> I think there is a KNotification bug that's at the root of the
> >>> dissapearance.
> >>
> >> I am not sure it's a bug, from what I understand it is a deliberate
> >> choice.
> >
> > OK.
> >
> >
> > The reason I didn't find it confusing is that after the notification goes
> > there is an "i" item on the taskbar that if you click on it reopens the
> > notification. This seemed clear to me the first time I encountered it.
>
> I guess not everyone eyes are as sharp as yours :).
> Still these notifications have other problems:
> - It's impossible to move a window in front of them
> - You can't monitor the progress if you hide them, while progress of
> classic windows can be tracked because the percentage appears in their
> taskbar entry
>
> > If this is a deliberate upstream design, then I think we ought to stick
> > with it.
>
> We would not go against upstream, since upstream provides us with
> configuration options to change this behavior.
I think that this: http://www.mail-archive.com/plasma-
devel at kde.org/msg03878.html could be taken as upstream wishing notifications to 
be left on for KDE 4.2. I don't think we should disable them either.

Jonathan




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