Re: Window controls for GNOME 3

[Calum Benson <calum benson oracle com>]

On 3 Mar 2011, at 14:14, Johannes Schmid wrote:

> Hi!
> 
>> * To hide a window in which a background task is ongoing. Minimizing the
>> window allows the user to monitor the progress in the window list button
>> (assuming progress is shown in the title bar, which ought to be the case),
>> and to be alerted when the task has either finished or encountered a
>> problem (when the window list button flashes), without being distracted by
>> the window itself.
> 
> Which is clearly what notification are for and not the window title. I
> think this case is solved in a much nicer way in the shell than it was
> before. Might be that some applications need updates though.

How would an application show the continuous progress of a background task using notifications, or the messaging tray in general? I don't see anything in the shell design docs that suggest that would be a good way to do it. (I guess you could show a progress bar or something when you roll over a notification icon, but that's not very helpful.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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