Hello Allan, thank you for the reply! As far as I know, GNOME Shell will support applets in the notification area so I'm in the process of moving the Alarm Clock there. Thus it should still function under GNOME Shell. (Also there's really no reason for it to be an independent applet at this point.) Of course once the new applets system is ready in GNOME Shell I'll consider migrating :-)
Instead of redesigning the alarms list as a popup menu, maybe I'll improve the current alarms list window. I have some ideas - I'll make some mockups and post them on the wiki page soonish. Regarding notify-osd - currently notifications are done through libnotify and have several actions (Snooze, Stop, ...). However, notify-osd does not support any extra actions and simply displays them as a (rather ugly) popup dialog. My idea was to only send simple notifications that notify-osd can display properly and move the alarm actions to the applet UI itself. Additionally I'd like to provide some visual feedback when an alarm goes off, to indicate how the alarm can be stopped/snoozed (icon blinking for example.) Then the notifications can be simplified to better comply with notify-osd and also be compatible with other notification systems. Thank you for pointing out the post on the proposed notification system for GNOME Shell. Very interesting :-) I'll definitely look more into GNOME Shell for future developments. Thanks again! Best regards, Johannes H. Jensen On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Allan Day <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Johannes, > > I've started having a look at this. Will get back to you when I have > something to share. I do wonder whether this is a good time to be > rewriting an applet though, considering the new applets system that will > come with GNOME Shell (this is yet to be designed and implemented, of > course). > > The other thing I'd like to ask you about is your choice of > notifications framework. Integrating with notify-osd (as you say you aim > to do on your wiki page [1]) could have consequences for the applet's > overall design. I wonder whether it would be better to aim to integrate > with GNOME Shell's notifications system [2]. The messaging tray could > work very well with the alarm clock. > > Best wishes, > > Allan > > [1] http://live.gnome.org/AlarmClock/Blueprints/BetterUI > [2] http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/2009/07/05/getting-the-message/ > -- > GoogleTalk: [email protected] > IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org > Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
