GNOME Is Making It Easier To Track Running Background Apps

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  • Mthw
    Phoronix Member
    • Dec 2017
    • 109

    #11
    Originally posted by EvilHowl View Post

    ...

    Android nailed the quick settings menu (and notifications) more than a decade ago. Everybody should copy them.
    Yes, but maybe not on desktop?

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    • stompcrash
      Phoronix Member
      • Jun 2016
      • 57

      #12
      Originally posted by Mthw View Post

      Yes, but maybe not on desktop?
      Exactly! Notifications which pop up and take your keyboard and/or mouse focus while you are doing something else is not good UI design. Actually, even on my phone that can happen. It's kind of a hard problem to solve correctly. For example, what happens if I'm just about to click on a link, and I receive a phone call? Oops! I just hung up.

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      • QwertyChouskie
        Senior Member
        • Nov 2017
        • 637

        #13
        Originally posted by Mthw View Post

        Yes, but maybe not on desktop?
        I've been digging the new quick setting menu in Gnome 43, and the improvements in Gnome 44 are looking great!

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        • Myownfriend
          Senior Member
          • Mar 2021
          • 1043

          #14
          Originally posted by user1 View Post
          this mostly seems to be useful for Flatpaks.
          Anything can use the portal, it doesn't have to be a Flatpak.

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          • Monsterovich
            Senior Member
            • Dec 2020
            • 299

            #15
            Originally posted by EvilHowl View Post

            And that's a great thing.

            Android nailed the quick settings menu (and notifications) more than a decade ago. Everybody should copy them.
            Is Gnome still a desktop DE?

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            • cooperate
              Phoronix Member
              • Jun 2022
              • 77

              #16
              Originally posted by -MacNuke- View Post
              They reinvented the tray icon long after dropping support for it.
              That doesn’t have to do with this. Some apps don’t even have tray icons and still run in the background.

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              • cooperate
                Phoronix Member
                • Jun 2022
                • 77

                #17
                Originally posted by Danny3 View Post
                Let me guess...
                This is a workaround for the missing system tray that a lot of people are complaining about?

                So glad that KDE Plasma with its default layout similar to "dumb Windows design", doesn't have this problem!
                Nope, that’s unrelated.

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                • cooperate
                  Phoronix Member
                  • Jun 2022
                  • 77

                  #18
                  Originally posted by Shiba View Post
                  Can we stop pretending that Flapflap is anything but a last resort already?
                  I think you’re posting on the wrong thread mate

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                  • cooperate
                    Phoronix Member
                    • Jun 2022
                    • 77

                    #19
                    Originally posted by Mthw View Post

                    Yes, but maybe not on desktop?
                    No, they work fine on desktop. There are plenty of UI features that work great on both.

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                    • cooperate
                      Phoronix Member
                      • Jun 2022
                      • 77

                      #20
                      Originally posted by stompcrash View Post

                      Exactly! Notifications which pop up and take your keyboard and/or mouse focus while you are doing something else is not good UI design. Actually, even on my phone that can happen. It's kind of a hard problem to solve correctly. For example, what happens if I'm just about to click on a link, and I receive a phone call? Oops! I just hung up.
                      Except they don’t take focus from windows…

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