Aaron Seigo also says they shouldn't be disabled. Here's a message from him on the plasma-devel mailing list from him explaining why they shouldn't be disabled.
Message: 3 Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:48:08 -0700 From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Plasma systray jobs default to off? To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Thursday 05 March 2009, Rob Scheepmaker wrote: > I think we should, for 4.2.2 either default the display of jobs to off, or > find a way to fix the problems and regressions. when you try new things, it may not come out perfect on the first go-around. that's to be expected. but you can't really "skip to the second step", otherwise step 2 becomes step 1 and all you've accomplished it pushing the problem deeper into the future with ever diminishing results. if we turn this feature off, here's what will happen: * we'll get less feedback to guide us as we work on 4.3 * we'll give the users of 4.2 the impression of visual inconsistency: we did it one way, then we did it the "old" way, then we'll do it the new way again. poor form. continuity of presentation is important, and being able to say (to ourselves, even) "This is the direction we are going.." is important. * we'll spend time caretaking issues in 4.2 that could be better spent moving 4.3 ahead. moreover, the job presentation is not that bad and it can be disabled if using the config dialog if they don't like it. which means it's really not that big of a deal. you can take the above and apply it to nearly any of the new ideas we come up with that we have a long term commitment to. if it is fixable and is being fixed, just live with it and move on. show resolve and commitment and let it mature. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software ** Changed in: kubuntu-default-settings (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist Status: New => Won't Fix -- Disable Plasam notifications for jobs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338206 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kubuntu-default-settings in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
