From kde-look Mon Nov 19 13:24:17 2001 From: Dave Leigh Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:24:17 +0000 To: kde-look Subject: Re: Pop-up alert dialogs. X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-look&m=100619121528351 On Monday 19 November 2001 08:19, Mariusz Pekala wrote: > Hello, > There is a bug (well... kind of) in the general idea of pop-up windows. As > you may be interested in this issue, please consider the following: > > Imagine this: you write a letter. Suddenly a pop-up widow pops-up and takes > keyboard focus. > You didn't noticed and pressed a Return key. The only thing you noticed was > disappearing window with some very, very important notice. Now you think - > what was that??? You should check the mail list archives. We discussed this in detail some months ago. Among the solutions discussed was a messaging component that would provide an icon in the system tray. Clicking on it would display a list of non-critical messages. Critical messages should continue to interrupt the user as they currently do. -- dave.leigh@cratchit.org http://www.cratchit.org One man's Mede is another man's Persian. -- George M. Cohan