On Jan 8, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Adam Heath wrote: > Adrian Crum wrote: >> +1 >> >> Bilgin Ibryam wrote: >>> What about having both versions together: the message will disappear >>> after sometime (as it was before) but you can still click on it for >>> faster closing? >>> >>> An improvement would be to add a [x] sign at the message corner, so >>> users guess that it can be clicked and closed. > > While we're on the subject, please add a way to see the message after > it goes away. Consider the case of a request taking a long time, so > the user changes focus to a new window. Then, when they come back, > the window gets clicked, and the message goes away, never to be seen > again. >
This is why I like the "old" way better where the message pushes everything down instead of sitting on top and going away (especially automatically). The dropping crumbs theme also uses displacement instead of overlay and disappear, and IMO that's a plus to it. -David
