Adrien Destugues wrote:
As long as package names can never contain a "-"?fy --type "progress" --group "Software Updater" --messageID 10 --title "Downloading
packages"
--progress .30 "haiku_devel-r1~alpha4_pm_hrev50970-1-x86_gcc2.hpkg"
You can show just the package name (haiku_devel) rather than the file name. It
is easy, jsut split the strign at the first - character.
A special "progress" status notification could be sent directly to the notification shelf I was working on. It would be out of the way until the shelf is unhidden by the user. There could be one regular notification at the start ("Package downloads commencing") and one at the completion or on error.The package name gets split onto 3 lines at my notification window width
setting of 400 so it
doesn't look very nice. Also notifications are always on top so if the user
wants to do something
else these will be taking over that screen real estate. With a regular window
you can put other
windows on top of it or place the status window anywhere on the screen and work
around it to keep
it visible.
A valid concern, and in fact I'm (still) not so happy with the current look of
notifications, they are generally too large for so few info. The idea for
"progress" notifications is that they could be used for Tracker file copy
operations and web browser downloads (as is done on Android) but for this we need them to
be less invasive.
