On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 15:19 -0400, Alex Launi wrote: > A bit ago I did my set of updates, which included the new release of > notify-osd, which are placed a bit lower than midway down the screen. > Putting these that far down the screen is really disrupting, and much > more flawed than their original position. The biggest problem is that > the information they present is entirely abstract, and disjointed from > everything else happening on my desktop. In the top right they are > visually connected to the notification area, where other system info > is presented, so I am given an area where I can find my system status > of various kinds, battery, wifi, time, and with notifications > messages. Moving the notifications down the screen completely breaks > this association, and causes a serious disruption of my workflow as I > try and figure out what the bubble is related to, why it's in the > middle of my screen, whether or not I should report a bug (I know this > one is not a concern basic users will have, but it's not a very > important one so let's not dwell on it), and when it's going to go > away because being in the middle of the screen it's actually covering > content, not just some window chrome. In fact, as I was typing this > email a tweet popped up and blocked right where my cursor was and I > had to stop typing and wait for it to go away so that I could see what > I was doing; I was completely interrupted by it which breaks a core > design goal of notify-osd. > > This experiment should definitely be called unsuccessful and > notifications should return to their sane place of top-right. > > -- > -- Alex Launi
FWIW , my exact same reasoning 4 months ago fell on deaf ears > https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg00106.html The bubbles seem very unprofessional. Well, these arguments will only be dismissed as "People will always resist to change" ;) -- Cheers, mac_v _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
