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.)
Well, IMHO I want to be alerted mostly when it finishes or when it has a
problem and that's what notification are for. If I want to know the
exact progress, that's an active action where I can look into the window
or check the message tray.
I agree. As for progress: a message tray icon that subsumes longrunning
'progress' (file) operations (copy, move, delete, download; maybe
update, install, for packages/applications; ...) with ability to cancel,
pause, restart? Wasn't this planned anyway?
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