Re: Is distractionless shell too distractionless? [Notification from telepathy evolution]

2011-04-19 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 11:53 -0400, Cosimo Cecchi wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 22:28 +0200, Maciej Piechotka wrote: This sounds like an interesting idea, but does it really scale well if you receive a few notifications in a short time? Depends on what you are doing right now. In short

Re: Is distractionless shell too distractionless? [Notification from telepathy evolution]

2011-04-19 Thread Cosimo Cecchi
On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 17:59 +0200, Maciej Piechotka wrote: While I understand why it was done it does not help to quickly look if there have been new events... Yeah, I totally agree; I think Empathy will be definitely improved in this regard for 3.2...not sure we can do anything about Skype,

Re: Is distractionless shell too distractionless? [Notification from telepathy evolution]

2011-04-18 Thread Cosimo Cecchi
On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 22:28 +0200, Maciej Piechotka wrote: This sounds like an interesting idea, but does it really scale well if you receive a few notifications in a short time? Depends on what you are doing right now. In short - I would like to put the incoming message into right 'tray'

Is distractionless shell too distractionless? [Notification from telepathy evolution]

2011-04-15 Thread Maciej Marcin Piechotka
After some time of using gnome-shell I noticed that shell is too distractionless. It is relatively easy to miss notification of email or chat message which came during, for example, coffee break. I don't think that chat messages are notified at all (which is good) but also those which mention my

Re: Is distractionless shell too distractionless? [Notification from telepathy evolution]

2011-04-15 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 02:59:06PM +0200, Maciej Marcin Piechotka wrote: I understand that it is challenge to find right balance but could message be more verbose. For example: IMO GNOME shell should detect user activity. If there is none, then depending slightly on the type of message, don't

Re: Is distractionless shell too distractionless? [Notification from telepathy evolution]

2011-04-15 Thread Maciej Marcin Piechotka
On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 15:34 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 02:59:06PM +0200, Maciej Marcin Piechotka wrote: I understand that it is challenge to find right balance but could message be more verbose. For example: IMO GNOME shell should detect user activity. If there is

Re: Is distractionless shell too distractionless? [Notification from telepathy evolution]

2011-04-15 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 16:09 -0400, Cosimo Cecchi wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 14:59 +0200, Maciej Marcin Piechotka wrote: I understand that it is challenge to find right balance but could message be more verbose. For example: - After unlocking screen the 'lost' notifications appears