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From: Ryan Prior
Date: Sun, May 10, 2009 at 12:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Things I have noticed
To: Natan Yellin
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Natan Yellin wrote:
> I don't think an X is useful either, but it seems to be a
> common request.
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Brian Curtis wrote:
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
>
> > The situation I would want to avoid is actually the one you describe,
> where
> > the "normal" situation is for people to have the "green dot" and to wait
> > till they get a "red
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Jacob Peddicord wrote:
> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Natan Yellin wrote:
>
>> Even if most Ubuntu users aren't at all tech savvy, you can't annoy the
>> small minority which are power users. Those are the people who may decide to
>> get involved in development
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Jacob Peddicord wrote:
> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Natan Yellin wrote:
> I can think of plenty of other options that would be nice though:
> - Positioning and size
> - Default expiration time
> - Theming? Different colored backgrounds/font color, etc for
On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 10:29:22PM +0300, Natan Yellin wrote:
> Even if most Ubuntu users aren't at all tech savvy, you can't annoy the
> small minority which are power users. Those are the people who may decide to
> get involved in development and submit patches, so their opinion is critical
> to
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Natan Yellin wrote:
> Even if most Ubuntu users aren't at all tech savvy, you can't annoy the
> small minority which are power users. Those are the people who may decide to
> get involved in development and submit patches, so their opinion is critical
> to your suc
Richard makes good points,
I like to remember the idea that "Creations reflect your masters, be
honest about who you serve", I like to think I serve the Ubuntu
Community and more specifically non technical Ubuntu users. So far
Canonical people have been aiming for that audience too.
> Even if mos
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Richard JOHNSON wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> So, a few things that I am noticing on this list, in press, and from
> various users, concerning the desktop notifications are this:
>
> a) When we, the developers, are discussing the options with notifications,
> we tend t
Hey everyone,
So, a few things that I am noticing on this list, in press, and from
various users, concerning the desktop notifications are this:
a) When we, the developers, are discussing the options with notifications,
we tend to discuss our workflow, which is fine, but we also need to
remember
Juha Siltala wrote:
> Unfortunately, XChat-GNOME (which is in main) does not yet support the
> new system. The "legacy" XChat is in universe and does not support it
> either. By default, Pidgin does in fact *not* have a perpetual icon in
> the notification area in Jaunty, so there is no double repr
So I've finally had to get rid of the messaging indicator applet after
trying it out for the last month or so. I'd like to throw out a few
reasons why and talk a little about how I use my computer and how the
notification system would ideally work for me.
First, problems with the existing messagin
Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
>
> For the moment, I think the messaging menu will stay binary ("no queue"
> vs "stuff to do"). But we definitely have a priority / urgency goal for
> Karmic in notifications. We are turning on a debug behaviour for
> notify-osd so that urgency will be visible on notifica
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 10:00 -0400, Steve Stalcup wrote:
> I still feel default notifications (knotify in the case of KDE) is my
> ideal method on email notifications
>
> More crap isn't always better
I'm not even completely clued in on how Message Indicator works its
magic, except that it invol
> More crap isn't always better
One man's crap is another man's agricultural grade fertiliser as Harry
King would say.
Besides, I detect no rationale in your email and I'd appreciate a
thorough comparison of KDE's knotify since I don't use KDE myself.
Martin,
_
I still feel default notifications (knotify in the case of KDE) is my
ideal method on email notifications
More crap isn't always better
On May 9, 2009, at 9:21 AM, Martin Owens wrote:
If I have to go into my email configuration and specify an email
address that's "important" so that it "giv
> If I have to go into my email configuration and specify an email
> address that's "important" so that it "gives me the green dot", that's
> a LOT of work. On its own, the payoff (a green dot on new email from
> that address) isn't really worth it. ESPECIALLY if "I get frequent
> email from" these
Alex Launi wrote:
>
> For apps in main, specifically IM and email, we would probably
> take a fairly tight view of "what should create the dot".
>
>
> This is great for apps in main, but we can't forget about universe
> just because it's not main. If apps in universe are abusing the
> indic
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