{"id":4364,"date":"2010-11-10T05:31:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T05:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notmart.org\/index.php\/Software\/Good_old_habits:_notifications_a"},"modified":"2010-11-10T05:31:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T05:31:33","slug":"good_old_habits_notifications_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/good_old_habits_notifications_a\/","title":{"rendered":"Good old habits: notifications again"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Activities<\/h4>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t put or effort only in the mobile environment or the new declarative &#8220;way of doing plasmoids&#8221;, but the general polish of the traditional desktop shell, the &#8220;most immediate need&#8221; for users is quite high on our priority list too.<\/p>\n<p>Chani recently <a href=\"http:\/\/chani.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/09\/recent-activity-uh-activities\/\">blogged<\/a> about the last progress of the activities management: in the Plasma Desktop workspace 4.6 finally the advantages are starting to be exposed to the user. In brief: can virtual desktops stop and start applications on demand when they switch? can an application be on 2 out of 5 vd? can a vd be stopped and when recreated be restored exactly as it was? (wallpaper, desktop widgets, running applications etc) can the user remove a non empty, non last virtual desktop? Can an application behave in a way that is specific for a certain desktop, like showing only work related contacts?<\/p>\n<p>Answer to all of those question is a discomforting, deep, structural no. If we ask those questions for the activities, the answer become yes, and the difference of purpose of those two things becomes evident. virtual desktop -> spatial arrangement of windows. Activities -> what I&#8217;m doing. There really is little overlap between the two things. Spatial arrangement is often used as activity separation, but is condemned to remain an half backed solution.<\/p>\n<h4>Notifications<\/h4>\n<p>Yes, notifications again! There won&#8217;t be any very big turning upside down of the notification an job area for 4.6 The form it&#8217;s &#8220;stabilizing&#8221;, with minor tweaks that can enhance quite a lot the look and usability of it, let&#8217;s see in brief what 4.6 will bring to the notifications and jobs area:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Slightly revised look: better spacing, less visual noise, more pixel perfection<\/li>\n<li>More compact layout of the jobs widgets<\/li>\n<li>A speed plotter for job in the expanded view to be able to see what&#8217;s going on in the transfer of a single file<\/li>\n<li>Global jobs progress bar is hidden when only one job is running<\/li>\n<li>Notifications can be dragged in the desktop again<\/li>\n<li>Only one scrollbar, and only when is necessary: everything scrolls and it&#8217;s preferred to keep visible active jobs rather than the notification history<\/li>\n<li>Notifications history tabbar is hidden when only one type is present<\/li>\n<li>Big icons in notifications to help to identificate what it&#8217;s talking about at a glance<\/li>\n<li>Action buttons moved beside the test to have a smaller notification widget<\/li>\n<li>It is possible to drag anywhere the notifications popup, so regardless of where the notifications Plasma widget is, they will appear in the place it works better with your workflow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since a picture is worth 3000 bullet points here are some screenshots \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notmart.org\/images\/notifications-46.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notmart.org\/images\/tn_notifications-46.png\" alt=\"Notifications on 4.6\" style=\"float:none\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activities We didn&#8217;t put or effort only in the mobile environment or the new declarative &#8220;way of doing plasmoids&#8221;, but the general polish of the traditional desktop shell, the &#8220;most immediate need&#8221; for users is quite high on our priority list too. 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