On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 14:59 -0800, David Hamm wrote: > "Our hope is that message tray will further reduce the need to > switch windows - that you won't need to switch windows because a new > message came in, or your music player shuffled to a track you don't > like. You'll only need to switch windows if you decide to do something > different." > > "The message tray is meant to be self-introducing, because it pops up > by > itself when something comes in. So hopefully, going back to the bottom > of the screen will be natural to users; they'll pick up the idea that > "messages are at the bottom"" > > Ubuntu nailed it with having messages in the top right, along with the > whole user activity/switcher part. Instead of working on a whole new > part on the bottom of the screen teams should be working together. > > For the same reason gnome-shell has a top bar instead of a bottom bar > like windows, the message tray shouldn't be at the bottom.
Hmm, I guess I'm not really picking up the specific reasons you are referring to here. The main reasons I'd say that we have the panel at the top are: - Continuity with existing GNOME design (the clock, system tray, and user menu are already there in a normal GNOME configuration and the Activities button is a bit like the GNOME menu.) - Many of the items act like menus, and menus pop down more naturally than they pop up. Neither immediately seems to apply to the message tray. I expect lots of conversation about messaging and other topics when all the designers get together for a hackfest next month. The work that the Canonical designers did on notifications and messaging is certainly one of the inspirations going into the message tray, but you can't really take a GNOME 2 design and apply it verbatim within a GNOME 3 setting. - Owen _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
