Features/Notification Progress Bar

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Summary

Give the notifications progress bars (if they want)

Owner

  • Email: samDELETEME@sugarlabs.org (You need to get rid of the DELETEME.)

Current status

  • Targeted release: 0.104
  • Last updated: 10/Aug/2014
  • Percentage of completion: 50% - needs discussion

Benefit to Sugar

  • Progress notifications
  • Background software update notifications
  • Coolness

Scope

It is a small change that does not break compatibility.

It needs Features/Notification_Replacement so your progress bar can move!

UI Design

The bar replaces the summary. Check out this video.

How To Test

Run this Gist in Pippy.

Dependencies

None!

Contingency Plan

People are sad :(

Documentation

Using the notification hints:

  • x-sugar-progress-bar must be True
  • x-sugar-progress-pulse True for a pulsing bar (see the start of the video)
  • x-sugar-progress-fraction 0.0 to 1.0 for the progress bar progress (e.g.: 0.5 is 50% filled)

Release Notes

Added notification progress bar functionality.

Comments and Discussion

https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/393