On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Marco Martin <notm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 October 2015, Martin Klapetek wrote: > > Basically the idea is to reinvent the notifications in Plasma a bit > > and create a kind of notification center. > > > > My plan would be to get a VDG design and then work on it for > > Plasma 5.6. > > > > Thoughts? > > I'm not sure, iirc at a sprint earlier this year we talked about something > like that, but was for all the applets that are right now in the > systray(plus > eventually random applets the user wants to stuff here in that sidepanel). > I have tought about it since then, but never followed up on that since i > can't > really figure out how it may work. > would it be just notifications? would it there be the other applets as > well? > For now, just notifications. Opening it for other applets would make it /the/ new system tray I fear. Although, that might not be a bad idea either, but for now, only notifications. > in the case of notifications, when there is none or just a couple, would > there > be a desolate field of emptyness in the sidebar? Yeah, probably. Which wouldn't have to be a bad thing though. > (and when the panel is at the > bottom, would they be at the top having a long travel distance? or at the > bottom looking strange?and when the panel is in a different edge > altogether? > note that on the mac all those questions are far easier, as the panel is > always fixed at the top) > I would put it from bottom-to-top when panel is at the bottom edge and top-to-bottom ordering in top panel setups. Just like the floating popups work now. In other panel cases, dunno, we'd have to settle on a default. > It's for sure an interesting idea to be explored, but has a lot of > questions > to be answeredboth on the ui and technical sides > Absolutely, just the discussion needs to be started at some point :) So first I'd like to collect opinions and thoughts and only then I'd proceed to request mockups and stuff. Cheers -- Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
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