Thanks for the feedback. That reminded me of the new feature of notify-osd that hides it under a window that is set fullscreen. That's just a side effect of the bug fix for flickering windows but it's also a good example of being unobtrusive because it avoids disturbing the user who is focusing on the "fullscreened" window :)
On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 14:19 +0300, Toni Ruottu wrote: > > The Ubuntu User Experience is aimed to be usable, helpful, unobtrusive, > > evolving, stable, powerful beautiful, simple, consistent, customizeable, > > and warm. > > +1 unobtrusive ;-) > > Some other Linux-based systems never call for your attention. One of > Ubuntu's strengths is that it tells you when something important > happens. eg. security updates are available. Designing notifications > that do not disturb users work flow is one of the most important goals > for future, and I've been happy to see Ubuntu takes it seriously by > exploring various notification techniques. Turning this into a formal > specification may be hard, but probably worth the effort, where as the > new notification APIs already draw some rough characteristics. > > --Toni _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
