display warnings in a less intrusive way than popups

[flaimo]

as a poweruser i tend to work rather quickly with keyboard-shortcuts and a graphic tablet. whenever i miss selecting a certain node with my pen, but then press a command shortly afterwards, i get a popup windows with a warning that a certain action can't be applied. this gets rather annoying after a certain time, since you know what the message says it says anyway, but you have to move the mouse/pen or hit the enter key to make it go away.

i would rather like to see warnings be displayed in an unintrusive overlay, which doesn't have to be clicked away manually, bud rather fades away automatically after 1 or 2 seconds.

real popup messages should only be used for real errors or where a certain user interaction is needed.

[flaimo]

i added a mockup screen of what i had in mind (kind of like the filter overlay)

[olejorgenb]

Agreed. If someone want to work on this they should check out FilterDialog.drawOSDText (activate some filter to see how it looks)

[simon04]

Ticket #4553 has been marked as a duplicate of this ticket.

[skyper]

Replying to flaimo:

i would rather like to see warnings be displayed in an unintrusive overlay, which doesn't have to be clicked away manually, bud rather fades away automatically after 1 or 2 seconds.

You are talking about info messages and no warnings.

real popup messages should only be used for real errors or where a certain user interaction is needed.

+1

[skyper]

from duplicate #4553: mjulius:

A transitional message window that looks pretty much like a tooltip and shows up near the top or bottom of the screen would be perfect for these kind of warnings. It should have a little bigger font, come up without getting input focus, be transparent to mouse clicks, and disappear after, say, 5 sec.

Those messages that you have to click on or hit enter to make them go away can be annoying.