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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    Re: Review Request: Show only total remaining jobs count
From:       "Harsh J" <qwertymaniac () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-05-04 4:03:41
Message-ID: 20100504040341.1495.38183 () localhost
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> On 2010-05-03 17:32:50, Marco Martin wrote:
> > can you commit it? then I'll change the icon afterwards

Yep, okay. Done in r1122520.


- Harsh


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On 2010-05-01 10:15:44, Harsh J wrote:
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> (Updated 2010-05-01 10:15:44)
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> Review request for Plasma and usability.
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> Summary
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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 :\ 
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> Diffs
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> /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/generic/applets/notifications/ui/busywidget.cpp \
> 1121172  
> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/3857/diff
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> Testing
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> Ran several jobs to see it count down after the notification pops up. Trivial \
> change I think? 
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> Screenshots
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> Icon with just total displayed, over the bg animation -- instead of running / \
> total. http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/3857/s/383/
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> Thanks,
> 
> Harsh
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