Re: Instant Message notifications

2011-05-05 Thread Elia Cogodi
What about a very small reminder in the bottom-right corner, a simple small number counter that tells me how many transient notifications were shown and hidden without interaction since the last time I opened the message tray? As soon as I open the message tray it's reset and disappears - until

Re: Instant Message notifications

2011-05-05 Thread Koppányi Tamás
this is a neat idea, but as before, i strongly suggest to move the whole notification bar orientation to the left side of the screen, so that iw ouldn't conflict with the scrollbars of fullscreen windows. the button to scroll down is hard to hit already since it's so close to the hot-corner, not

Re: Instant Message notifications

2011-05-05 Thread David Prieto
Koppányi, this is a neat idea, but as before, i strongly suggest to move the whole notification bar orientation to the left side of the screen, so that iw ouldn't conflict with the scrollbars of fullscreen windows. the button to scroll down is hard to hit already since it's so close to the

Re: Fwd: Instant Message notifications

2011-05-05 Thread Maciej Marcin Piechotka
On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 10:08 +0200, Elia Cogodi wrote: After all, you can already left or middle click the scrollbar, drag it, mousewheel it. On a touch screen there will be inertial scrolling gestures, and for a11y the small arrow button is certainly not that great... Not everyone have mouse

Re: Fwd: Instant Message notifications

2011-05-05 Thread Elia Cogodi
Sure, not everybody has touch screens, mouse wheels or touchpads with gestures, but... - AFAIK the trigger area for the message tray is 1 pixel high. Thus left and middle click on scroll bar should work ok as long as the user doesn't slam into the very bottom. - trouble seems to mostly arise

Re: Fwd: Instant Message notifications

2011-05-05 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 11:41 +0200, Elia Cogodi wrote: Sure, not everybody has touch screens, mouse wheels or touchpads with gestures, but... - AFAIK the trigger area for the message tray is 1 pixel high. Thus left and middle click on scroll bar should work ok as long as the user doesn't

Re: Instant Message notifications

2011-05-04 Thread David Prieto
also it would be great if there was better integration for empathy. right now the notification bar icon of empathy is barely cliackable This is a GTK+ bug which has been fixed. Additionally, we're trying to have the Shell be more of a native client for Telepathy rather than a set of hacks

Re: Instant Message notifications

2011-05-04 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
This is indeed what we're trying to do... see the long thread that davidz started about GOA http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-April/msg00107.html On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:29 AM, David Prieto frandavid...@gmail.com wrote: also it would be great if there was better

Re: Instant Message notifications

2011-05-04 Thread Koppányi Tamás
these all sound very promising! any info on when this (3.2?) could make it to the public? On 4 May 2011 08:40, Jasper St. Pierre jstpie...@mecheye.net wrote: This is indeed what we're trying to do... see the long thread that davidz started about GOA

Re: Instant Message notifications

2011-05-04 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 02:56:01PM -0700, Micah Carrick wrote: Not sure if this is gnome-shell or gnome3, but, I was wondering how I can enable some sort of notification (eg blinking icon, red exlamation mark... something) letting me know there are messages. I know one of the design goals is

Re: Instant Message notifications

2011-05-04 Thread Allan E. Registos
On Wednesday, 04 May, 2011 02:40 PM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: This is indeed what we're trying to do... see the long thread that davidz started about GOA http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-April/msg00107.html Sounds good. We'd probably also want it to work with

Re: Instant Message notifications

2011-05-04 Thread David Prieto
Jasper, This is indeed what we're trying to do... see the long thread that davidz started about GOA http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-April/msg00107.html That's very, very interesting. One thing caught my eye, though: This daemon/library thing, let's call it GOA (Gnome

Re: Instant Message notifications

2011-05-04 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:11 AM, David Prieto frandavid...@gmail.com wrote: Jasper, This is indeed what we're trying to do... see the long thread that davidz started about GOA http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-April/msg00107.html That's very, very interesting. One

Re: Instant Message notifications

2011-05-04 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:11 AM, David Prieto frandavid...@gmail.comwrote: Jasper, This is indeed what we're trying to do... see the long thread that davidz started about GOA

Instant Message notifications

2011-05-03 Thread Micah Carrick
Not sure if this is gnome-shell or gnome3, but, I was wondering how I can enable some sort of notification (eg blinking icon, red exlamation mark... something) letting me know there are messages. I know one of the design goals is reduce distractions, but, in my line of work these distractions are

Re: Instant Message notifications

2011-05-03 Thread Michal Orlik
It would be really nice if there will be some global notification in top panel (something like ubuntu's indicators). Sometimes I didn't see if someone wrote me and it's crucial sometime. Would be here some good soul to make some extension for this? Micah Carrick píše v Út 03. 05. 2011 v 14:56

Re: Instant Message notifications

2011-05-03 Thread Koppányi Tamás
i am also really hoping that developers wouldfix this. also it would be great if there was better integration for empathy. right now the notification bar icon of empathy is barely cliackable (only the icon, not the text), and while the chat windows stay on the notification bar, but they have no

Re: Instant Message notifications

2011-05-03 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:40 AM, Koppányi Tamás kornena...@gmail.com wrote: i am also really hoping that developers wouldfix this. also it would be great if there was better integration for empathy. right now the notification bar icon of empathy is barely cliackable (only the icon, not the