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. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Oracle Corp. _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
