On 2012-02-01 14:49, Florian Müllner wrote:
Except that applications can set a 'resident' hint on notifications,
in
which case a representive icon is kept in the message tray, from
which
the notification can be recalled; together with the ability to
provide
actions on notifications, the experience is not different from status
icons.
Not different...except that you can't see or interact with the icon in
question unless you perform a distractive action (move your mouse to
bottom-right corner or trigger the overview). Doesn't exactly fit in
with the 'distraction-free computing' idea if you have to cycle through
the overview every five minutes to check if a notification icon changed
while you weren't paying attention.
The whole GNOME 3 notification area is something of a bizarre
netherland: there doesn't seem any logic to its existence. Unlike
traditional notification areas it's not tethered to a panel, a concept
users generally understand. It's just this kind of ethereal
(non-)presence which sort of reserves the bottom right hand corner of
your screen (and hence, really, the entire bottom portion of it, since
if you try to interact with anything there you'll forever be triggering
the notification area accidentally) but sort of doesn't, because it's
not always visible. It's an odd bit of UI altogether.
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