On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Alex Launi<[email protected]> 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. >
I feel ambivalent regarding the vertical positioning, but I do agree that "fixing" notifications to not fade if they appear where the mouse is, is actually breaking it. As I mentioned on the blog post, if a notification appears where my mouse is, there is a very high chance I am looking/working in that area and that this notification is going to be an impediment. The old behavior of starting faded in may not have been optimal but I think it was more usable and less in the way. Perhaps it should fade partially in then out again when it appears this way. But I agree with Alex. Appearing unfaded at precisely the area where you are likely working (the position of the mouse cursor) seems to go against the wonderful philosophy of notify-osd. Thanks for all the great work so far on this, and I am quite sure it will get better and better over time, perhaps with the occasional little bump :) -- Michael Rooney [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
