On Sunday 04 October 2009 18:52:34 Giulio Camuffo wrote: > 2009/10/4 Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org> > > On October 4, 2009, Jacopo De Simoi wrote: > > now, we believe that it is ready for merging into trunk. Of course we > > need > > > > your feedback first, so grab it, try it out and tell us what you think! > > i still don't see the need for either of the popup control options. why > should we care how long it pops up? > > i can think of two use cases for the "show pop up when device is > inserted": > > a) the user simply doesn't want that behaviour but still wants access to > their devices > > b) the user has set up the notifier to not display some devices and so > doesn't want it popping up when those devices are inserted > > (b) is probably easily done by simply not popping up the window if the > device is hidden in it. > > if the device inserted is hidden the popup doesn't show up, it doesn't > matter if that option is enabled or not. so the usecase behind that option > was (a). > so the question is "is (a) worth supporting?" personally, i don't think > so. the point of this thing is as a device *notifier*. it's not just a > device *lister*. > > but in the real world the main point of this applet is to access the > devices, because if i insert a cd or a usb drive i don't need the computer > to tell me that i inserted it, i already know that!
Personally, when inserting a cd or usb stick, I always wait for the device notifier to tell me when the device has "settled", i.e. when I can start accessing it. That's often a couple of seconds. I hardly know any case where this device notifier shows up out of the blue even (I don't have people sneak around me and inserting usb sticks into my computer ;-)). -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
