Automatic activity switching and other stuff -- thoughts for 4.7

2010-12-19 Thread Ryan Rix
Hey all, Long mail follows, sorry. Really only of interest to Chani, Aaron, Ivan and other activity folks... :) My goal was to bring this up for 4.6 but herp derp, I didn't, so here we go. I've been thinking a lot about how to give the Activity Manager a way to predict what a user would like

Re: Automatic activity switching and other stuff -- thoughts for 4.7

2010-12-19 Thread Ivan Cukic
Hi, First of all, I'd avoid automatic switching unless explicitly requested by the user (aka, don't automatically switch to work-tagged activity when Alice arrives at work unless she somehow requested that she wants it to switch automatically in that case). As for the other stuff - the taggin

Re: problem with popup message and auto-deletion

2010-12-19 Thread Marco Martin
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 4:51 AM, todd rme wrote: > On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Aaron Lewis > wrote: >> Hmmm .. I still expect you developers add an option for it. >> >> Like me , i got a crontab for my fortune program , the story-teller , >> and it popup messages every 30 minutes with kdial

Re: problem with popup message and auto-deletion

2010-12-19 Thread Marco Martin
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Steven Sroka wrote: > I don't know if you are talking about KNotify or not, but... >> This is also an issue with Amarok notifications. I really don't need >> a history of the last 80 songs Amarok has played. > > It's not just an Amarok issue. 'Unimportant' informat

Re: problem with popup message and auto-deletion

2010-12-19 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Sunday 19 December 2010 02:32:21 Aaron Lewis wrote: > What do you think about it ? Just give a try to Colibri [1]. Given the fact that there is an alternative implementation there is IMHO no need to add any further options. Cheers Martin [1] http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Colibri?conten

Plasma panel and Kephal

2010-12-19 Thread todd rme
Plasma's panel depends on "kephal/screens.h" to build. However, this is not header is not exported during building. This means, unless you have a KDE source tree on-hand, you cannot buld the panel. This is fine if you are just trying to build the default panel, since you wouldn't do that out of

Re: Automatic activity switching and other stuff -- thoughts for 4.7

2010-12-19 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
Not much to add at the moment except this: Currently, I see one of the main benefits of the Activity concept is its malleability; that is, an Activity can be anything that makes sense to the user, not just clear-cut divisions that can be easily anticipated, such as "Work", "School", "Home", and "Lo