Radu Olaru wrote: > I did not knew exactly to who should I write, nor did I found any > explicit email on the gnome site, so here goes. Did you noticed how are > modern desktops evolving? They try to be as dialog-less as possible. > Gnome is great in evey way but it has too many dialogs opening at every > step. Copying dialog, Package Update progress dialog and so on. My > suggestion would be to make a small applet responsable of showing every > background task's progress and cut down every progress dialog. This way > the whole desktop will be cleaner and less windows will pop when you > least expect. If it's a background job, why displaying it's progress in > a window? Let it work in the background and not bother the user. > Eventually make it sing on to an all around progress display applet > responsable with keeping the user informed about every background job. > All those dialogs make the desktop feel old. You really should consider > eliminating some of the dialogs.
Well thank you for such a great idea, but I'm working on it (background task and progress dialog "removal") for several weeks now, as my summer of code project ;-) _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
