Il giorno lun, 27/04/2009 alle 15.47 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth ha scritto: > Martin Pitt wrote: > > Hello, > > > > just received an interesting comment about notify-osd, and some > > deficiencies which come up a lot: > > > > > > http://martinpitt.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/the-stracciatella-gnome-session/#comment-364 > > > > > > The comment right after is interesting, too :-)
Sorry for jumping in the middle of threads I perhaps didn't read entirely, but all these "judgments" on notifications and pop-unders are in my opinion missing two important points and a minor one important n. 1) notifications disappear. That's by design. However, since I installed jaunty, I have seen a notification bothering me with some "this network is .local something and this is bad" long message that I never managed to read (fancy understanding it) every time I connect to the local network. I have no way to let the notification stay longer (e.g. mouseover) and I have no way to find it in a message log of some sort. I just feel irritated by a message that appears and does not leave me the time to understand it. And I am patient with computers, you can imagine my mother. She just would not care about reading such a message. But perhaps you're already addressing these points. important n. 2) pop-ups and pop-unders, even minimised windows, break the alt+tab order, hence they are doomed to disturb the user. less important) even though one may click "trough" the notification, I fear that users will not understand this and just wait for the notification to disappear: there is no other case of "click-transparent" window that I know of, hence I don't expect users to trust that they can really click "below" an existing window, even if it looks transparent. Perhaps avoiding mouse (by moving) would be better, but it would also look a bit funny in the negative sense of it. Vincenzo _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp