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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: new startup notification code in cvs
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () sh ! cvut ! cz>
Date:       2001-05-28 7:04:49
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Dne ne 27. květen 2001 19:31 Eric Laffoon napsal(a):
> On Saturday 26 May 2001 08:18 am, Anders Orebäck wrote:
> > Hi.
> > Regarding the startup notification in current CVS.
> > I actually enjoy this feature.
> > You said you wanted feedback, so here we go.
> >
> > 1.
> > It starts for kio_cache_cleaner or whatever its called.
> > I guess it should not.

 Fixed.

> >
> > 2.
> > The busy icon hangs around for too long usually.
> > (Maybe just for konq, like you said.)

 Just like some developers forget there are people with slower machines, I 
forgot there are people with faster machines :), so I set the timeout to 60 
seconds ( and it was 80 actually because of two little mistakes ). I changed 
it to 30 seconds for now.

> >
> > 3.
> > I really liked it the way it was in the first checkin.
> > Where the busy icon was the icon for the app being launched.
> > (I even thought the blinking was nice;-)

 Ah. People who hate it, people who like it, and now you poor developer make 
your choice ?

> > Now its always the "generic app" icon which I never liked anyway.
> > (And a lot of times its just grey?)

 Grey ? What style do you use ?

> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > ./Anders
>
> I agree with the above and especially the generic app icon. To me the
> generic icon causes me to look at it and wonder what I did. It takes my
> eyes away from the taskbar where it confirms I did not accidentally click
> the wrong icon. I know that I clicked an app with an icon assigned to it
> but the generic icon feels uncertain to me. Why in the world would we
> downgrade this feature? There ought to be some way to have the far more
> useful previous behavior available. (besides using Alt-F2 instead of
> kicker)
>
> I honestly thought the new behavior was a bug.

 No, it's not a bug. It's not done yet in the new implementation. I use 
minicli most of the time or start apps directly from the command line, so I 
even didn't notice I forgot this.

 Lubos Lunak
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