The original discussion/vote thread is here
brainstorm.php?mode=idea&i=91258 and there are videos embedded as well.

This is my version for the workspace notification system what's idea is based for multiple different features.
(check the PDF at bottom for longer explanation.)

Mockup of the Notification tiles at right side of the desktop:



Mockup of the Notification configuration module in SystemSettings.


Example Videos of the Notifications

- configuration module action in SystemSettings
http://vimeo.com/21037412

- Notification style 1
http://vimeo.com/16531335

- Notification style 2
http://vimeo.com/16531440

- Notification style 3
http://vimeo.com/16531461

1. Notifications are by default passive. They do not jump top of the window. They don't need attention or actions.

2. Notifications can give a information what tells the user that something important has happened. User can ignore it without need to take a action to hide it.

3. Notifications allows a two mode actions:
a) A half-action is single click, it does not actually launch a action but it gives a user more information about the notification when needed by extending the tile in bigger version (check PDF).
b) A full-action is double click, it does the default action about the notification. User does not need to do half-action first to execute full-action.

4. Notifications are historical, they are in timeline order, the older
notifications gets stored or they are even removed if they are not crucial after the timeout.

5. Notifications follows the user actions in the applications and tries to speed up the notifications message by the users own memory of the tasks. Example, if user copies a folder what takes time, the notification from it is tied to the memory of copying a folder and separated from the memory of the copying a few files.

6. Different animations for notifications and configurability of notification places is important in this notification system. Use of the existing technologies to solve notifications problems in different use cases. Example, multiple window open at once on desktop, one window in fullscreen top of the others, a dashboard, hide-all-window/show desktop -functionality, activities, nepomuk and plasma theme support (of course!).

Please give critic or suggestions what you find good/bad about this idea.

Notification system explained in this old version PDF document
(17 pages, 2.3Mb with big screenshots and videos).
http://www.mediafire.com/?fcaa8mmmh4f8m97
Expect it to be updated.

Hey! I really liked your idea about this notification. Very kind! You could do it by yourself and put it on the kde-look to users give a try, and they would comment about your project!

Double post

Uneivi wrote:Hey! I really liked your idea about this notification. Very kind! You could do it by yourself and put it on the kde-look to users give a try, and they would comment about your project!

I don't like the idea to have it in kde-look.org or any other place as it just cause the comments to get fragmentation to separate places.

Already the forum admins idea to add separated part for KDE workspaces from KDE Brainstorming has caused lots of fragmentation between different ideas as normal people don't know for what side to comment or what belongs to which side and voting for that idea goes wrong.

So if wanted to promote this idea, I suggest it to happen in viewtopic.php?f=83&t=91258 what already has the votes and discussion. (Just the whole brainstorm side seems to be stalled for some reason).