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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [despammed] Re: autorun?!
From:       Chris Roland <croland () opentothecore ! org>
Date:       2003-08-24 13:48:02
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I can agree with the passive popup.  The one in kopete is great, I think it 
uses knotify, but I could be wrong.

I would hate a popup to grab focus, because I insert cds while Im working on 
something, usually multi-tasking ;). 

Just my 2 cents.

- Chris

On Sunday 24 August 2003 10:16, Esben Mose Hansen wrote:
> On Sunday 24 August 2003 18:45, Simon Perreault wrote:
> > On Sunday August 24 2003 12:34, André Somers wrote:
> > > I agree. Maybe a passive popup could be a good option? They don't steal
> > > focus of your work, but they do allow for information to be displayed
> > > and even for buttons and stuff like that. You can also look at how
> > > Kopete solved this.
> >
> > The popup that would appear when inserting a CD is not something that
> > happens when you're not expecting it. You *inserted* the CD. You're not
> > working anymore. When you're doing is inserting a CD, and thus the popup
> > should take focus, since it's part of inserting a CD.
>
> I still think that passive pop-up idea sounds much better. A few reasons:
> 1) CD-ROMs are slow; thus I usually insert them well before I need them.
> 2) The program that needs to handle the CD may very well already be
> running. A dialog asking what to do would be annoying in this case. I see
> this in windows all the time; especially with new-to-windows people.
> 3) It would need to be consistent not to be confusing. E.g. floppies,
> networked drives, USB-HDs etc.
>
> I guess it comes to the guess-rate. If I wanted to see the dialog less than
> half the time it appeared, it is highly annoying. Windows' auto-run fall
> into this category, and I fear that a KDE/GNU/BSD/Linux-solution would have
> the same fallacies. However, a solution where a game CD could put an icon
> in the tray "Click here to start Doom 12", perhaps zoomed with a timeout,
> would be beyond cool. It'd naughty.

 
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