Re: New notification system.

2009-03-09 Thread Eric Hedekar
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Cory K. coryis...@ubuntu.com wrote:

 Ok. I'm not convinced this is right for Studio this release. My vote is
 to remove it and revisit it for Karmic.


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I'm not on the studio team, but I see no major issues with it.  Removing it
could cause many newbies great confusion and possibly troubleshooting woes.
My vote is to keep it - if I get a vote.

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Re: New notification system.

2009-03-09 Thread Cory K.
Eric Hedekar wrote:
 On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Cory K. coryis...@ubuntu.com wrote:
   
 Ok. I'm not convinced this is right for Studio this release. My vote is
 to remove it and revisit it for Karmic.
 

 I'm not on the studio team, but I see no major issues with it.  Removing it
 could cause many newbies great confusion and possibly troubleshooting woes.
 My vote is to keep it - if I get a vote.

Confusion how?

*Technically* there's no reason it won't work. We'll just use the old
system. I don't feel it's mature enough for now. Also, this (the new
system) is really more for desktop users atm. Studio isn't a desktop distro.


-Cory K.

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Re: New notification system.

2009-03-09 Thread Eric Hedekar
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Cory K. coryis...@ubuntu.com wrote:

 Eric Hedekar wrote:
  On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Cory K. coryis...@ubuntu.com wrote:
 
  Ok. I'm not convinced this is right for Studio this release. My vote is
  to remove it and revisit it for Karmic.
 
 
  I'm not on the studio team, but I see no major issues with it.  Removing
 it
  could cause many newbies great confusion and possibly troubleshooting
 woes.
  My vote is to keep it - if I get a vote.

 Confusion how?


The confusion I thought might arise would be from new users who rely heavily
on forum posts, howtos, and regular ubuntu documentation etc... that all say
their computer should behave in way_X and actually behaves in way_Y.  From
reading many posts in the forums, I've seen quite a few newbies who still
can't understand why Intrepid's RT kernel doesn't work well for audio -
despite the many many many warnings on all the documentation.  (I'm just
using this particular bug as a documentation/new user issue, I'm in no way
comparing kernels to notifications)

I will fully admit that I haven't researched how ready the notification
system is yet, but I've had only minor glitches through most of my Jaunty
testing (seems to be working right now).

-Eric Hedekar


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Re: New notification system.

2009-02-21 Thread Khashayar Naderehvandi
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Cory K. coryis...@ubuntu.com wrote:
 Canonical's new notification system has been put into Ubuntu and Studio
 has accepted it for testing.

 After spending the day with it I'm not personally sold. I found numerous
 places where apps didn't work with it and the amount of new
 notifications I got looks to have doubled. Along with inconsistent
 windows popping up.

 I was told that it's still new and there are still updates to add but we
 still might wanna wait 'till +1 to take on this change.

 As it really doesn't remove functionality from Studio and is just bling,
 I'm unsure if we should take this new system for now. Users can always
 manually install it if they wish.

 *Please* test and give feedback.

The most annoying thing with the new notification system, in my
opinion at least, is how it handles pop ups that previously used to
have any kind of interaction buttons. For example pidgin's libnotify
plugin that has a show button, clicking on which takes you to the
pidgin window (or some such). Of course, most of the time one simply
ignores a lot of these notifications, but with the new system you
can't ignore it. They pop up in the middle of the screen in their own
window. That's pretty horrible. In fact, it's so horrible, that I
can't imagine it being kept like that for long.

What I'm trying to say is that I'm hoping the most annoying things
with the new notification system will be fixed before Jaunty is out.
We could just as well go with it. Also, there has been a lot of
critique of Mark's idea to completely eliminate the interaction
possibility. Hopefully that critique will be taken into account when
developing the notification system.

Cory, can you point out some of the stuff that didn't work - or didn't
work properly - for you? For me, like I said, it's mainly the window
pop ups.

Regards,
K.

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Re: New notification system.

2009-02-21 Thread Cory K.
Khashayar Naderehvandi wrote:
 On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Cory K. coryis...@ubuntu.com wrote:
   
 Canonical's new notification system has been put into Ubuntu and Studio
 has accepted it for testing.

 After spending the day with it I'm not personally sold. I found numerous
 places where apps didn't work with it and the amount of new
 notifications I got looks to have doubled. Along with inconsistent
 windows popping up.

 I was told that it's still new and there are still updates to add but we
 still might wanna wait 'till +1 to take on this change.

 As it really doesn't remove functionality from Studio and is just bling,
 I'm unsure if we should take this new system for now. Users can always
 manually install it if they wish.

 *Please* test and give feedback.
 
 The most annoying thing with the new notification system, in my
 opinion at least, is how it handles pop ups that previously used to
 have any kind of interaction buttons. For example pidgin's libnotify
 plugin that has a show button, clicking on which takes you to the
 pidgin window (or some such). Of course, most of the time one simply
 ignores a lot of these notifications, but with the new system you
 can't ignore it. They pop up in the middle of the screen in their own
 window. That's pretty horrible. In fact, it's so horrible, that I
 can't imagine it being kept like that for long.

 What I'm trying to say is that I'm hoping the most annoying things
 with the new notification system will be fixed before Jaunty is out.
 We could just as well go with it. Also, there has been a lot of
 critique of Mark's idea to completely eliminate the interaction
 possibility. Hopefully that critique will be taken into account when
 developing the notification system.

 Cory, can you point out some of the stuff that didn't work - or didn't
 work properly - for you? For me, like I said, it's mainly the window
 pop ups.
   

What you mention in your 1st paragraph has been my biggest issue. It
happens the same way for the trap app mail-notification. When you get
alot of mail, this behavior is damn annoying. :)

I'll keep in contact with the guys working on this. Alot of work is
still ongoing. If we're not happy with it in a month or so we can drop it.


-Cory K.

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