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pinda wrote:Hello all,

Finished jobs automatically pop up with a clickable link and no progress bar so it\'s more obvious when a job has finished. This all should help with people accidently unplugging usb sticks and what not.

I\'m not seeing this. True enough, you get a notification when the copy has finished as far as Dolphin is concerned, except that it hasn\'t actually finished as the drive lights are still blinking (often for several minutes). I\'d like to see a fix to this so I can stop running gkrellm, which shows I/O activity on the drive. Or even have a plasma widget to do the same, as the disk monitor thing only shows disk occupancy and not activity.

Can the original mockup be re-uploaded somewhere? It has been removed from the server.

pump* yes.. wheres the mokup? plz upload it again!

Was permanently deleted.
Working on a better remake.

Kubuntiac told me that he had no time to replace the mockup, but the idea is still there.

I would love to use KDE as an application-centric desktop environment and this is a step towards it.

KDE applications need a general API to access their taskbar entries (maybe via DBus?). Maybe i should file a new idea for it?

That is what the dbus notification system KDE is using does. Assuming the spec allows for tying notifications to windows and putting progress bars in notifications, there is no reason in principle this couldn't be implemented now, at least in a third-party task manager.

I would think we would not want to leave this up to the program to decide, rather the program just sends out generic information, and the desktop environment can decide what, if anything, to do with it. Plasma can take that information and provide it to widgets which can individually determine what, if anything, they want to do with it. Rather than tying it to a specific implementation (like a taskbar), this allows for much more flexibility and originality.

do the applications already provide their “overall progress”, not just only the progress of every progress bar available? if so, this idea sure would be worth implementing now.

unobtrusive progress notifications like this are imho superior to the notification area, since it would be much clearer* and provides information without cluttering more window space.

*imagine, you have amarok playing and ktorrent as well as kget downloading stuff, while a large folder is copying. the task progress bars would now allow you to check each task�s progress without opening the notification area and searching the text above the progress bars until you found the one you are looking for.

flying sheep wrote:do the applications already provide their “overall progress”, not just only the progress of every progress bar available? if so, this idea sure would be worth implementing now.

Icon Tasks (http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Ic ... ent=144808) seems to be able to show the "overall progress" of an application.