Comments on: Quick screenshot

By: kwilliam

kwilliam — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:28:37 +0000

Lol, I’m STILL excited! My web browser restores all previously open tabs when I start it, and I have yet to close this tab!

♪ I’m so excited! And I just can’t hide it! I know, I know, I know, I know, I want [that little progessbar plasmoid] ♫

By: Murdock

Murdock — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:51:37 +0000

i wrote “keep us informed twice”… i’m so excited that i don’t check what i write!

By: Murdock

Murdock — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:30:15 +0000

rscheepmaker keep us informed.

yes I meant progress bars, not scrollbars :#)

I think some kind of grouping is essential. Think to kmail checking for new mail. I have 5 accounts to check, and there’s no need to show each time 5 rows in kuiserver. Kmail already do this in the status bar, you can see the whole progress, or, clicking on the row, each task. This should introduce a new parameter to pass with dbus, the weight. If I have 2 downloads, one of 1MB and one of 100MB the weights in the whole process are different, so the progress should be not an arithmetic median of the percentages, but a weighted median.
(I hope my english is understandable)

Keep us informed, I’ll visit your blog often to get some news!

By: Klaatu

Klaatu — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:33:35 +0000

I’ve been waiting months for something this simple-but-elegant. It looks great!

By: pio dalcin

pio dalcin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:07:52 +0000

great work thanks

By: Andre

Andre — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:22:06 +0000

Awsome work! Thanks. I am looking forward to seeing this in action.

By: rscheepmaker

rscheepmaker — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:46:34 +0000

@DanaKil: Good idea. Something like that would indeed be great. That’ll need some additions to the kuiserver dbus interface, and the kuiserver job tracker, but it might be worth investigating. It’s currently not on top of my priority list, but I’ll definitely put it on my todo list.

By: DanaKil

DanaKil — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:16:52 +0000

Hi, and thank your for your work

“-finished tasks don’t need pause or stop buttons: you’re right… I’m actually going to fix that right now ”

–> maybe these buttons could be replaced with others standart actions. If apps that register with kuiserver could define their own actions, it would be cool too (but don’t know if this is feasible)

Ex :
- for a K3b finished burn -> show K3B or quit
- for a downloaded file : open the destination directory or open the file
- for an archive : extract or open
- for an ISO file : run a checksum

By: rscheepmaker

rscheepmaker — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:31:53 +0000

@Murdock: thanks for the feedback… I’ll try to address the points you make.
-app icons: the problem is, that that would (obviously) make the detachable widgets take up more space. But, as is most of the stuff in plasma, it’s themable, So themes can decide how much they value screen real estate vs. having easier to spot icons. Might be interesting to try a couple of different sizes.

-scroll bars: I assume you mean the progress bars? I agree.. That design is most probably still going to change.

-finished tasks don’t need pause or stop buttons: you’re right… I’m actually going to fix that right now

-grouping: some form of grouping would certainly be interesting. I’ll give it some thought .

By: Murdock

Murdock — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:17:20 +0000

GReat! I love it, thanks! And we really need to develop kuiserver because it’s a killer-app. Let’see if I can help improving it with my my $0.02:

-App icons should be larger, it’s important to get immediately what the progress is about (a dvd-recording, a download, a cd rip)

-scroll bars are a bit too large, i suggest half height but keeping the same space (with padding over and below)

-finished tasks don’t need pause or stop buttons

-it would be nice to group tasks by application and have expand/collapse buttons

Keep on!