Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
The position is final for 9.10 but can certainly be reconsidered for
Lucid.
The factors that need to be considered are:
* fitting things into the corner is most aesthetically pleasing
* the "synchronous" notifications (like brightness and volume) are
fixed in size
* the async notifications (IM's etc, things that happen elsewhere,
not in response to a keypress) are variable sized and can grow vertically
* sliding things around when something else grows is really bad, it
is unpredictable and frustrating for a user trying to look at the
thing that suddenly moves, so:
- synchronous should not be below async (so that it does not have
to slide down)
- the bottom right corner doesn't work (because then async has to
grow "upwards")
[snip more explanatory awesomeness]
Hello.
Lurker here, but this is too good to pass up, and even ties in with the
"closed design list" discussion. Am I the only person who thinks that
reading the previous email from Mark listing the factors, contraints and
things that were tried makes the decisions that were reached and end
result (in this case for the Notify-OSD for karmic) *much* more
understandable?
I personally think it'd be really nice (and useful) if something like
the previous email from Mark was made available for every large UI
change that Ubuntu makes. (I don't know... I'm thinking of something
similar to the Python PEPs... Maybe even with links from the html
version of the release notes, like the PEPs.) That way people who are
not entirely happy about a change to the UI can understand the
constraints under which said change was made, and then make more
informed and constructive criticism at the very least.
Christian
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