On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 18:19 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: > On 10 Oct 2005, at 10:42, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: > > > - Alarm starts with a tray icon, and has provisions to quit, change > > configurations. In the configuration gui, the user can select, which > > calendars, notifications are required. Only for the selected calendars > > the user will get notifications. > > http://www.gnomebangalore.org/?q=system/files&file=/preferences_0.png > > I'd say this might fall foul of the current HIG guidelines on > notification icons, although admittedly they're (a) unfinished, and > (b) a bit crap so far. I'd view anything that puts an icon in the > tray all the time, but which isn't constantly animating in response > to some change (like a network connection, resource monitor or > battery charge), with a little apprehension. > Calum, i used these icons, since only these were available. Probably, we can have a different icon altogether to indicate alarms.
> > - No more Popup notifications, if libnotify is installed. When the > > alarm > > has to be indicated, a desktop notification would be send, stating the > > subject, location, time (duration). > > > > http://www.gnomebangalore.org/?q=system/files&file=/notification_0.png > > Might be nice to retain the Dismiss/Snooze functionality that you > currently get with alarm popups... not sure exactly what libnotify > supports here, and I know we don't have any HIG guidelines for this > sort of thing yet, but I know Ubuntu's update manager notifications > offer some sort of options. ("Remind me later" and "Don't tell me > again", or something.) > When you l-click on the blink you get the same old dialog, which provides the information with snooze/Dismiss functionality. Probably, we should add, once libnotify does support for those. > > - In addition to that, when ever there is a alarm, the tray icon, > > has a > > blinking '!' in it and the tool tip stating the Subject, time > > (duration). > > http://www.gnomebangalore.org/?q=system/files&file=/tooltip_0.png > > Would like to think we could invent something a little more > imaginative than a blinking "!"... randomly blinking things can be an > accessibility issue (although I think there are some discussions in > bugzilla about how to handle various DEMANDS_ATTENTION type-things in > an accessible way). Also, "!" tends to suggest "error", to me, at > least-- it looks more like "I've lost the connection to your > calendar" than "you have a reminder". > Hmm nice thinking :-). As i said again, we can look at different icons. For normal - Existing. one alarm - Clock with Alarm multiple - A different indication with from the previous one. > > If there are more than one alarm, it says the number of alarms. > Hmm, do you have a screenshot of that? Sounds like it could be a lot > of information to cram into a small icon. Hmm, it is the same as of now, the same blink, just the tooltip says that 'you have %d alarms'. We should replace them with better icons which is pending. > > Cheeri, > Calum. > thanks calum for your inputs. -Srini _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers