-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dylan McCall wrote: >> I think this is where the greatest potential for saving systray space comes >> from. I'm working on a blog post on this (since it's hard to point at >> pictures on a mailing list). When I looked through the stuff on my systray >> and thought, "what do I really not want there/wouldn't mind if it were one >> level of indirection away" and it was all system related. >> >> Scott K > > That's exactly what I was thinking a while ago, too. Something like the > system tray does make a lot of sense for presenting long-term > notifications within a single level of individual icons, where each icon > is a notification. Could use an infrastructure touch-up (get on d` > bus!), but it's adequate for UI and I can see why people use it. > > Instead of Message Indicator, Ubuntu should be pushing a Hardware > Indicator where people control / monitor the different hardware devices > attached to their computer. Bluetooth, sound and networking go there. > This could really improve how the user interacts with new hardware, > since he could immediately expect any newly attached hardware to trigger > some feedback in that one place. It's like the window from the > abstracted world of software into the actual physical part of the > computer. For example, an attached USB flash drive could get an entry in > the Hardware Indicator, or a new printer :) > > It could be further blinged out by the fact that such a design opens up > a ton of space for quick hardware stuff - a resource we have always > needed, since today's hardware icons in the notification area convey > very little actual information on their own.
for these same reasons , that the present system notifications are not highly useful without text, i had proposed a concept of *notification tags* [not to seem in love with my own idea,pls check out this link>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDesignGuidelines/Comments ,for mockups on the notification tags... but i hope something similar is developed]. where the persistent notifications are presented in a way useful summarized information is presented to user. presenting information in an organized manner is more important to making a OS look more standardized , professional and complete, rather than a bunch of working softwares bundled together. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoHnvkACgkQ8QR4RbuR48CYiACfV889m1MX8sXMx4Vl0JBRg5pB gyoAmwQqF86KlpY7SMKnZ+YWNrlc8nZD =Ck/e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
