I think it would be valuable to have a help bubble mechanism that can point at or highlight particular interface elements (useful for guided tours, tutorials etc), but I don't think notification bubbles can be that mechanism. Queueing notification bubbles means that the relevant interface element is even more likely to have moved by the time the bubble appears. And when a confirmation bubble (volume, brightness, etc) is already on the screen, it's quite likely to be placed between any newer notification bubble and the thing it wants to point to. (notification-daemon blithely ignored this problem, which resulted in bubbles covering each other as they fought to point at different elements on the panel.)
-- 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
