On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:24:38PM -0400, Hubert Figuiere wrote: > On 04/19/2009 05:38 PM, Shaun McCance wrote: >> The Tomboy applet is an extremely convenient way to access >> your notes. You think of it as wasting valuable screen >> real estate. But to a heavy note-taking person, it's just >> really convenient. > > > Except that Tomboy using a status icon in the notification area has the > exact same feature set. Just that the notification area does not offer so > much possibilities in term of positioning.
Not the same. Fitts' law. Having Tomboy applet in border of screen makes it crazy big target to hit with mouse, which is good. Notification icon is many times harder to hit. The same story is now with Volume Applet. -- Tomasz Torcz RIP is irrevelant. Spoofing is futile. xmpp: zdzich...@chrome.pl Your routes will be aggreggated. -- Alex Yuriev _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
