Hey Christian, 2008/11/10 Christian Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Very critical notifications can be set to have a non-expiring timeout. This > would ensure that they stay visible until the user acknowledges them. > > Some people have also talked about writing a notification backlog for > important notifications, where an icon in the tray blinks when there's > certain notifications you missed. The problem with this is that you really > need to have a fine-grained concept of what's important and should trigger > the blinking. You could leave it at critical notifications and you might be > fine, but these may as well just be set to not disappear by the calling > program if it's really important (your battery is going to explode).
Yes, I'd like to see this too. There are a number of reasons why it would be useful to have an obvious way to view a record of notifications. * Queue all messages while away * Queue messages (except critical) while busy * Queue messages (except critical) while in fullscreen * Hide all but important (but user configurable) messages by default * Access messages later that were dismissed by mistake (ie. be forgiving) * Provide a way to see missed messages or messages that timed out before I could read them * Provide an API to screensaver/display-manager to get number of unread messages * Minimize distraction for less than important messages * Remind me of when a message arrived (eg. oh man has it been an hour already since that appointment reminder) * Provide a way to discriminate what is important enough to disrupt me (blinking is pretty severe, colors/boldness may work) * Allow the user to configure what is important to them or what they never want to see (ie. put the user in control) * Allow the user to use the bubble to quickly decide whether the item needs immediate attention but have the freedom to access it later (after the bubble times out). [1] Jon [1] A good use case here is an instant message conversation. I probably want to see a bubble for the first message from a friend. But I don't necessarily want to respond immediately. And if I choose not to respond immediately I still want to have an easy access to that message. Also, I probably don't want to see another bubble message from that friend until I respond once. However, it may be useful to increment a counter on the status icon that represents the message history (aka. the notification center). Facebook and Adium have good examples of this type of status icon. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list