On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 17:01 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > Now you've made me think about it, I think my problem is your first > point: in the case of IRC I at least really *want* the app to demand my > attention. Politely requesting it for two seconds just isn't enough; I > can easily completely miss the very polite 'notification' action if I'm > engrossed in something else (it's happened to me multiple times today > already). It's just not enough poke to get through to me unless I'm > doing absolutely nothing else at the time. > > (there's a vaguely related buglet here which is that the notification > system doesn't account for dual screens at all; to get the notification
thinking about it even further, dual screens may come into it in a different way. The notification animation, restrained as it is, happens entirely on the primary screen. Nothing at all happens on the secondary screen when a notification occurs. I split up tasks kind of equally between my screens; if I'm reading a web page, which happens on my 'secondary' screen, it makes it even easier to miss the notification event. I guess if Shell learns to deal with dual screens properly and does something on both screens when a notification occurs, the problem I'm having might be mitigated. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
