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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Pop-up alert dialogs.
From:       Richard Moore <rich () ipso-facto ! freeserve ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-11-19 14:13:04
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I have nearly finished a passive popup class which solves this problem 
cleanly. It will be in kdelibs 3.0 (Dirk has ok'd it going through the 
freeze). It will popup next to the window icon using the icon geometry from 
the WM hints so it should work with any taskbar/wm etc.

Rich.


On Monday 19 November 2001 13:24, Dave Leigh wrote:
> 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.

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