On Monday, August 23, 2010 08:19:13 Kevin Kofler wrote:
Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> I'm not sure a notification applet by itself is going to be the best
> answer here... as people may be busy or not see the notice and a few
> seconds later it goes away and they miss it.
That's why the notification should not time out unless/until the user
clicks it away!
disagree, have you seen your notifications after leaving your computer alone
for several hours with IM client connected (with whatever status)?
You'll get tons of "User XY has changed status to: blah blah"
or even when you have opened 2+ chat windows (so there are some without
focus), you'll get tons of 'User XY is typing' and 'User XY send new
message:
Blah blah'
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244589
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244931
In KDE, the old-style notifications just stay on the screen until clicked
away, the new-style Plasma notifications (which are the default) retract
(after some timeout) to an (i) button in the systray, which will only move
to the hidden part of the systray if the notifications in it are clicked
away by the user.
does not work for all usecases, sometimes it's pain in the ass