For what it's worth, I find the notification system to be quite nice as is. I have some bothers with other areas that may or may not be tied to the core "notification system" though. Namely the background color of the notifications themselves is not adjustable, and instead is tied to the desktop wallpaper. I wouldn't have a problem with the background color of the notifications not being adjustable, so long as it matched something like the top panel bar color, which would make sense given their close proximity. It being tied to the desktop wallpaper seems (to be blunt, yet honest) a downright awful idea given that I see the wallpaper almost never, but due to my black and white image, it causes the notifications to be extremely light and washed out looking. That forces me to change to a darker wallpaper just to have darker notifications so they are easier to read. I mean, really? How and why this is I'll never be able to understand.
The other area is the extreme lack of persistent notification from the system that I have a notification waiting. Say I miss a notification because I was away for a moment. I come back and... what? Am I supposed to see the 1px highlight around the icon in the Unity bar? The envelope in the upper right is hardly that great. It requires me to look at a secondary location on the right when I could just focus on the left where the actual application icons are all of the time anyway. It'd just be easier to have a highlighted icon on the bar that's obvious enough for a user to, well, actually see. An example would be having the icon in the bar wiggle once every 30/60 seconds until it receives attention, but that bug report has laid dormant since it was reported, so... there's that. Being able to click links would be a nice feature, but I don't see a need from my perspective as a heavy Ubuntu user to need to click them to dismiss, so long as they grow transparent with mouse hover. TL;DR - I like the notification system, but I by no means 'love' it. It certainly needs a few refinements in the overall aesthetics + functionality department. Just my 2c. -J On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Marc Deslauriers < marc.deslauri...@canonical.com> wrote: > Hello, > > On 2014-12-11 12:25 PM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > > hi, > > Am Donnerstag, den 11.12.2014, 01:26 +0100 schrieb Oliver Grawert: > > > > .... > > > > > > > http://news.softpedia.com/news/Canonical-Intends-to-Keep-Its-Notifications-without-User-Interaction-on-Unity-8-467206.shtml > > Wow. Just wow. > > > > > so since this seems to hit social media and will most likely trash my > > end of year vacation (it is really lovely to get personal attack mails > > and stuff when you are on vacation, i have been through this a few times > > now due to someone spreading FUD based on mails i sent to MLs as > > personal opinion) ... > > > > i want to make something very very clear: > > > > I AM NOT SPAKING FOR CANONICAL !!!!! > > > > everything i said in this thread is my own opinion > > *as a user of the system* > > > > while i am a canonical employee i am neither a member of the > > ubuntu-desktop team nor am i working in the canonical design team, i > > make *no decisions at all* over any desktop design. > > > > seriously, am i not allowed to have an own opinion ??? > > > > > > *SIGH* > > I am not speaking for Canonical either. > > I'm not a designer. > I'm not on the desktop team. > I'm in no way responsible for that decision. > > I was simply stating my personal opinion. I think the notification system > we > have now is a step up and a definite improvement over the old-style > click-to-dismiss notifications we had in Gnome 2. > > Again, just my opinion. > > Marc. > > > > -- > ubuntu-desktop mailing list > ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop >
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