> When an activity launches it brings up an instance of the notification icon > in the activity tray. I'm trying to make it so when someone copies something > instead of it popping up the frame for a second it shows a pulsing > notification icon in the top left hand corner.
Personal note: Been running the "new look" Sugar/Joyride for a while. [It does what you describe when an Activity is launched.] I've now trained myself to notice the pulsing icon in the top left hand corner -- but I think that is an easily-overlooked location (particularly since current notification icons have the same background color as the "border" in which they sit). -------- I am a believer in "show notifications where the user is looking, not off in a corner somewhere": When an asynchronous notification occurs, the user should NOT be "taken away" from what he is doing. Absent a "bell", the simplest "alert" I can think of is to "flash" the screen once (change its brightness for half a second, then go back to the way it was). That tells the user: "a notification has occurred". [It is up to the user, at his convenience, to look for the actual notification.] When a _synchronous_ notification occurs (i.e., 'feedback' to confirm the user's action), such as when an activity is launched, I would like that feedback (unless it takes more than five seconds) to occur right where the user performed the action (e.g., where the cursor was). [If there is a notification associated with *putting* something where the Frame would show it, "pulse" (or temporarily distinguish) whatever is being put. If the user wants to *verify* that the thing is sitting where it was put, *then* let him call up the Frame.] mikus _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
