Cassidy, Victor, HERE HERE! Allen Lowe On Jul 2, 2012 9:08 PM, "Victor Eduardo" <victoredua...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey, that looks good. In regard to your questions: > > > Does it sound like a good idea? > > It's working nicely in GNOME Shell, and personally I find actions in > notifications really useful. In my opinion they make a lot of sense in some > cases, like when you get notified of a message from a friend. A > go-to-conversation button would probably make a lot of sense there. > > How would we go about implementing it? > The API is already there. libnotify provides support for adding actions, > so it's easy to add support for action buttons to our apps. Currently, > these are only shown when using GNOME Shell AFAIK, since notify-osd has no > support for them. > > > What would it look like? > It depends on how you implement it on the server side (notify-osd, > pantheon-notify, etc.). Mockup time! > > > What problems could it create? > Apart from increasing the workload for pantheon-notify's dev(s), I don't > see any other problem. > > > What problems could it solve? > Interesting question. Let's see what others say :) > > Regards, > Victor > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Cassidy James <c...@ssidyjam.es> wrote: > >> Hey Devs, >> >> I was catching up on some Android developer things from I/O last week and >> came across something nifty regarding notifications. In Android 4.1, Google >> has added a "big content view" to the notifications, actually pretty >> similar to our idea with the expanded Pantheon Notification. However, >> they've expanded on that: Actions. >> >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Yc8YrVc47TI#t=1917s >> (Link >> should point to 31:57) >> >> With actions, users can quickly and easily perform a relevant action >> without even going to the app. For example, you could have a "Like" button >> on a Facebook notification, "Reply" and "Archive" buttons on an email >> notification, etc. Basically the developer can make it faster for users to >> perform a few actions. Of course they're pretty strictly-controlled by the >> platform so that developers don't get carried away; in Android, you can add >> up to three actions. >> >> I think it would be an interesting route to look into. With Pantheon >> Notifications we already have an "expanded view" on hover, and it might be >> nice to let developers add a few actions to the notifications. What I want >> to know from all of you is: >> >> - Does it sound like a good idea? >> - How would we go about implementing it? >> - What would it look like? >> - What problems could it create? >> - What problems could it solve? >> >> Of course this is just me throwing an idea out there; I'm not saying it's >> an idea we have to run with or even that it's a good idea. I simply have >> been enjoying this feature on my phone this past week and wanted to see if >> we could brainstorm something similar for on the desktop. >> >> Regards, >> Cassidy James >> >> >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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