> 2009/10/21 Martin Albisetti <martin.albise...@canonical.com>: > > Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > >> > >> Johan Euphrosine wrote: > >>> > >>> Here is better mockup: > >>> > >>> http://bitbucket.org/proppy/clutter-repl/raw/4b8460e1e300/logs/session14.ogv > >>> > >> > >> Let's hear what others think. > > > > It feels odd to read from the bottom to the top. I played around with moving > > things on the screen upwards and downwards, and it's easier to follow them > > as they go down rather than up. > >
+1 > On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 21:18 +0100, Luke Benstead wrote: > It's funny you should say that, because this way it mimics the > behaviour of IM clients such as Empathy and Pidgin (previous text > scrolls up, the most recent appears at the bottom). > > Luke. > When the words scroll while the user is reading in the middle , it becomes difficult to follow the lines. As the line the user is trying to read has now moved up. Such scrolling is not ideal for reading text in transient bubbles. This is because the new append doesnt add itself line by line[slowly] as teleprompter do. But rather the full length of the new append is added , and the line the user has been reading would have now jumped several lines above. In IM clients the text does not disappear , so you can take your time to catch up with the text. Try this , try reading text in an irc chat room with heavy traffic,[eg: #ubuntu]. You'll notice it is not easy to catch up. What we could do is: - Place the Async bubbles in the lower right, at a height keeping in mind the max[10 lines] allowed for append. So the bubble is in the lower right position but not exactly in the corner. This would make the bubbles not have a problem of scrolling text. - Place the sync bubbles to be in the lower center. At the same height as the async bubbles but centered. [Similar to where the upstream volume/brightness notifications are placed] -OR- - Revert back to the dynamic positioning of the bubbles and place the bubbles in the lower right at the height assuming for 10 lines of text. Then again we might get complaints that the bubbles are not exactly in the corner... ;) -- Cheers, mac_v _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp