Re: [Ayatana] Clippy has noticed you've been trying to click on notifications...

2011-12-12 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Evan Huus wrote on 03/12/11 15:43: ... Currently when an event occurs (for example, someone says something in a minimized empathy chat), a notification pops up and the messaging indicator turns blue. They happen at the same time, but the events

Re: [Ayatana] Clippy has noticed you've been trying to click on notifications...

2011-12-12 Thread Evan Huus
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Evan Huus wrote on 03/12/11 15:43: ... Currently when an event occurs (for example, someone says something in a minimized empathy chat), a notification pops up and

Re: [Ayatana] Clippy has noticed you've been trying to click on notifications...

2011-12-12 Thread Omar B .
: [Ayatana] Clippy has noticed you've been trying to click on notifications... -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Evan Huus wrote on 03/12/11 15:43: ... Currently when an event occurs (for example, someone says something in a minimized empathy chat), a notification pops

Re: [Ayatana] Clippy has noticed you've been trying to click on notifications...

2011-12-03 Thread Evan Huus
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Chow Loong Jin hyper...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 02/12/2011 19:46, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: True. But it could appear only when someone starts a conversation, rather than every time they say something. That only makes it slightly better. It's still just as

Re: [Ayatana] Clippy has noticed you've been trying to click on notifications...

2011-12-03 Thread Christian Rupp
Am 03.12.2011 16:43, schrieb Evan Huus: [1] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/171647/notifications_as_speech_bubbles.png Good idea, but I would move the bubble closer to the panel the distance is silly ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to

Re: [Ayatana] Clippy has noticed you've been trying to click on notifications...

2011-12-03 Thread Evan Huus
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Christian Rupp christ...@r-k-r.de wrote: Am 03.12.2011 16:43, schrieb Evan Huus: [1] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/171647/notifications_as_speech_bubbles.png Good idea, but I would move the bubble closer to the panel the distance is silly I know (I made it by taking

Re: [Ayatana] Clippy has noticed you've been trying to click on notifications...

2011-12-03 Thread Omar B .
color background and cut/paste the notification closer to the panel. Then fill in the empty area with another area of the bg :D From: eapa...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 13:08:54 -0500 To: christ...@r-k-r.de; ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Clippy has noticed you've

Re: [Ayatana] Clippy has noticed you've been trying to click on notifications...

2011-12-02 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chow Loong Jin wrote on 29/11/11 16:20: On 29/11/2011 23:08, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: The first reason is that a chat window wouldn't be noticable unless it was frontmost; it's difficult (or little-known) to make a window frontmost without

Re: [Ayatana] Clippy has noticed you've been trying to click on notifications...

2011-12-02 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 02/12/2011 19:46, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: True. But it could appear only when someone starts a conversation, rather than every time they say something. That only makes it slightly better. It's still just as disruptive at the beginning of a conversation. In contrast, a notification allows

Re: [Ayatana] Clippy has noticed you've been trying to click on notifications...

2011-11-29 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 29/11/2011 23:08, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: The first reason is that a chat window wouldn't be noticable unless it was frontmost; it's difficult (or little-known) to make a window frontmost without making it take focus; and if a window takes focus while you're working, that's annoying.

Re: [Ayatana] Clippy has noticed you've been trying to click on notifications...

2011-11-19 Thread Chris Wilson
Most notifications on most platforms allow the user to interact with it so some extent, even if it's only to dismiss it. In particular, the notifications produced by MSN messenger on Windows, has people trained to click on notifications to open the application that spawned them. On 19 Nov 2011,

Re: [Ayatana] Clippy has noticed you've been trying to click on notifications...

2011-11-19 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 11/19/2011 04:00 AM, Ryan Prior wrote: Could we detect that the user has been dwelling the mouse in the notification area significantly more frequently than is expected, and display a simple explanation? Clippy as inspiration or comparison should raise a red flag ;) There's a risk that

Re: [Ayatana] Clippy has noticed you've been trying to click on notifications...

2011-11-19 Thread staticd
There's a risk that users who don't need that explanation will trigger it, when they have to interact with something that happens to be in the notification spot. The faded-out notifications might barely manage to be tolerable in such a situation, but an explanation popping up won't be. --

Re: [Ayatana] Clippy has noticed you've been trying to click on notifications...

2011-11-18 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 19. nov. 2011 05:10, skrev Roland Taylor: I had suggested something similar before (some kind of intro video, or something to tell users what to do/expect on first launch), but I was told that it is not the intended behaviour for Ubuntu, so I don't think they will be interested in doing