Dylan, this was a subject of intense discussion. In the original concepts, we did use the fade behaviour to indicate the relationship between the bubble and a point on the screen. But in reviewing it with users, this was considered "weak", because you had a fade, shrink and move all happening quickly (250ms). So, we had to decide between this weak option, and the overly strong option of the "arrow on the bubble". In the end we decided to keep the notifications minimalist.
In my mind at least, this is an open item, we haven't yet proven the case one way or the other. I don't know how best to reflect that in the bugtracker - if we get a LOT of feedback on this, or find use cases where it's really the only solution, we would raise the priority of the problem and see if we have creative solutions. For the moment, neither the "arrow" nor the "fade destination" are going to get implemented. Do you have other suggestions we could mockup? -- support X and Y hints for notifications https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/333517 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Notify OSD Developers, which is subscribed to Notify OSD. Status in Canonical's Notification Display Agent: New Bug description: Many applications use the X and Y hints to explicitly place their notifications. This is typically accessed in libnotify via notify_notification_attach_to_widget. Very popular to link a notification to a status bar applet. In fact, this functionality is even showcased in the concept video! <http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/253> It would be sensible to support this hint in notify-osd. To go with the "relaxed" design philosophy, the notification itself should not be placed according to the hint, but when it fades out (and perhaps when it fades in) it should indicate the widget it is attached to. This way the user will know, if he wishes to act on the notification, exactly which button to press. I suspect that this would work better than the existing "place the notification at the hinted location no matter what" behaviour of the original notification-daemon, since here developers can set location hints knowing that they aren't being obtrusive. Thus, no need for more buttons; just point the user to where they already exist. So, err, please support this hint! _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
