Version: (using KDE Devel) OS: Linux I think that (error-)notifications in the status-bar are a bad idea if they aim to be noticed by the user. Colouring may help a bit, but they are still not in the focus of the user. As an example: Try to open an archive that cannot be opened. you will end up with a blank page and a small notification in the status-bar telling you that zip://... could not be opened due to whatever reason. The focus of the user however is in the middle of the blank page, so any (error-)notification that is meant for the user should be put there and not into that tiny status-bar at the bottom where the user's view gets only after searching the rest of the screen, i.e. following the Z (start top left, end bottom-right). Better than the bottom of a window but still worse than the middle of it would be the top, since the user starts reading/viewing at the top, so the "first entry" in an empty list should be the reason why it is empty, i.e. the (error-)notification.
I can agree with the moving it to the top, it -does- seem to be more noticed there. However, if it is one thing I hate with a passion (besides Microsoft :P ) it is modal dialogs. Something about them really bugs the crap out of me. If I had to choose between the two extremes, I would rather be oblivious. I do agree that the error box should be moved to the top, however. It has gone unnoticed by me before. Perhaps the color changing would help too....
I... agree The errors at the bottom often do skip past me ending up being noticed minutes later. There should either be a more noticing way to put those errors at the bottom or they should move to a more noticeable position.
What about displaying a nicely formatted error page like konqueror does? Not a modal dialog, but definitely obvious.
(In reply to comment #3) > What about displaying a nicely formatted error page like konqueror does? > Not a modal dialog, but definitely obvious. That adds a popup... It's clear though :) Anyway, I just don't know what would be the best way to do something like this.
I meant in place of the document, not as a popup.
Git commit 213450d39704fc0154da5f0e45e4198af8239842 by Peter Penz. Committed on 12/04/2012 at 23:57. Pushed by ppenz into branch 'master'. Use KMessageWidget for error- and information-messages See http://agateau.com/2011/04/21/kde-ux-2011/ for more details. This simplifies the statusbar in Dolphin a lot and allows to do a proper eliding in case if status-messages are too long: In this case a tooltip will show the whole status-message (thanks to Wolfgang Mader for the initial patch!). There is still missing some finetuning but the general approach seems to work quite nice. Related: bug 249638, bug 245618 FIXED-IN: 4.9.0 M +14 -20 dolphin/src/dolphinmainwindow.cpp M +2 -2 dolphin/src/dolphinnewfilemenu.cpp M +79 -51 dolphin/src/dolphinviewcontainer.cpp M +28 -10 dolphin/src/dolphinviewcontainer.h M +93 -152 dolphin/src/statusbar/dolphinstatusbar.cpp M +32 -65 dolphin/src/statusbar/dolphinstatusbar.h M +9 -9 dolphin/src/statusbar/statusbarspaceinfo.cpp M +4 -2 dolphin/src/statusbar/statusbarspaceinfo.h http://commits.kde.org/kde-baseapps/213450d39704fc0154da5f0e45e4198af8239842