Re: GNOME 3.0 - shell and applets

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 19:14 +0100, Luis Medinas wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 12:51 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > FWIW, I wholeheartedly agree that lots of people abuse the notification
> > area. And I'd like to point out that your own application is doing this,
> > here's a screenshot I did a few weeks ago
> > 
> >  http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/brasero.png
> > 
> > because the whole user experience was so.. freaking absurd.. and I was
> > overloaded with redundant information.
> > 
> 
> The whole point of notification area on Brasero is to make user able to
> hide the dialog (very common on big media like dvd's and bd's) and see
> the status on the notification area and then receive a notification when
> the media finish burning.

That's the wrong way.

1) Make sure you don't use a GtkDialog for your progress, so that it
shows up in the taskbar, and update your window title with the progress
(either just the ETA, or the percentage if burning is going to be only a
couple of minutes long, eg. a CD with a fast drive). You should even be
able to update the icon to show the progress (which would look nice if
you use gnome-do's docky)
2) When burning is finished, show the notification (if you really need
to), play a sound (using libcanberra) and make your dialogue request
attention.

> Yes sometimes we are abusing notification area but the user should be
> able to hide the notification area icon.

No, applications should be fixed instead :)