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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    Re: [KDE Usability] Review Request: Show only total remaining jobs
From:       Dotan Cohen <dotancohen () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-05-01 11:29:56
Message-ID: v2s880dece01005010429m4dc93e36l2620b8034c1ac008 () mail ! gmail ! com
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> First off, this is more of a personal suggestion than a bug-fix/etc :)
> 
> As the notification tray item is already such a tiny thing and has newly introduced \
> (cool) animation effects for running job's completion progresses, squeezing a label \
> within like "running / total" only crowds it more. The animation looks pretty weird \
> around it. 
> Why not just show total remaining jobs and keep counting down at that, much like \
> those loading screens in the old movies that went "5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.. (i).". This \
> so cause at every job completion a notification event is anyway supposed to fire \
> (whether user has set to receive it or not) and the shown number also indicates \
> automatically the no. of jobs left to do -- the user will anyway have to click the \
> icon for detailed information on what is/how many are actually progressing. So lets \
> just show total no. of remaining jobs to run. Comments? 
> P.s. Something can also be done to enhance the look of those numbers ("1/2" or even \
> if its just "2"). But the result shouldn't hinder the bg animation, and I can't \
> think of what will do both :\ 

I agree 100%. Having format X/Y means that users must learn (and care
about) what X is, and what Y is. Do users really need all that info?
Just show one number, which is how many notifications are
remaining/pending/active/whatever.


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Dotan Cohen

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