Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-12-12 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Conscious User wrote on 30/11/11 20:08: Which reminds me, shouldn't we stop pretending that synchronous and asynchronous notifications are similar enough to deserve being close? They are not, and the current approach causes more problems than

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-12-02 Thread Conscious User
Em 02-12-2011 01:45, Chow Loong Jin escreveu: On 02/12/2011 03:45, Dylan McCall wrote: That this is the case should raise a red flag for everyone who has paid attention to NotifyOSD. A big part of the design is that an application can't control where notifications are. It can't treat a

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-12-01 Thread Dylan McCall
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Conscious User consciousu...@gmail.com wrote: The most obvious one is the ugly gap when no synchronous notification is being shown. But I personally think that making synchronous and asynchronous informations have the same appearance and positioning is a

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-12-01 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 02/12/2011 03:45, Dylan McCall wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Conscious User consciousu...@gmail.com wrote: The most obvious one is the ugly gap when no synchronous notification is being shown. But I personally think that making synchronous and asynchronous informations have the

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-30 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Conscious User wrote on 29/11/11 17:54: Em 29-11-2011 12:54, Matthew Paul Thomas escreveu: ... Christian Rupp wrote on 15/11/11 16:06: ... First of all I would move the bubble closer to the panel That looks much nicer. Which reminds

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-30 Thread Conscious User
Which reminds me, shouldn't we stop pretending that synchronous and asynchronous notifications are similar enough to deserve being close? They are not, and the current approach causes more problems than solves. What problems does it cause? The most obvious one is the ugly gap when no

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-30 Thread Roland Taylor
On 11/15/2011 01:57 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: No reason to discuss this. It is a core design value. Notifications are transient. Indicators are persistent. And it is not more intuitive that a bubble is clickable than it not being clickable. For instance, these types of notifications have

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-29 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Rupp wrote on 15/11/11 16:06: Currently notifications in unity are what they called: notifications: they don't do anything else... I really like in GS to be able to answer immediately or a friend complained that he wants to click on

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-29 Thread Omar B .
wow, morphing windows, i remember that one :) i really liked how that worked. I wonder how something like this would look/behave today. Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:54:31 + From: m...@canonical.com To: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity -BEGIN

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-18 Thread Christian Rupp
Am 18.11.2011 06:11, schrieb Jo-Erlend Schinstad: Read Microsofts description of why that was a horrible idea and why they've wanted to get rid of it for more than a decade. In short, that system was completely incomprehensible because all apps would work in

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-18 Thread Omar B .
] Notifications in unity Den 18. nov. 2011 04:51, skrev Omar B.: - the items that now hide inside the MM are the icons (or what used to be icons in the panel/systray). ref. https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com/img/15183cadf2a9cdd7781aea9a6a22b84455adf703

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-18 Thread Roland Taylor
On 11/18/2011 01:11 AM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: Den 18. nov. 2011 04:51, skrev Omar B.: - the items that now hide inside the MM are the icons (or what used to be icons in the panel/systray). ref.

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-18 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 19. nov. 2011 05:22, skrev Roland Taylor: The solution here would be to stop crowding the messaging menu (which really makes no sense), and allow autohiding of indicators, similar to the KDE systray. I agree that the messaging menu is bordering on being crowded, but hiding indications

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-17 Thread Evan Huus
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:59 AM, staticd staticd.growthecomm...@gmail.com wrote: Jo-Erlend: If you spend three hours a day using your computer, then you will have spent 10.920 hours during the next ten years. Is it more important that a user can use the system without learning anything, or

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-17 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 17. nov. 2011 17:59, skrev staticd: *(II)Proposal:* 1)To satisfy Design principles and constraints (a) and (b): the notification behaviour remains as it is for the first two seconds, 2)_A mouse over_ after the delay will transform the notification to show a close and a help button(see

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-17 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 17. nov. 2011 18:50, skrev Evan Huus: How about this as a sort of counter-proposal (still trying to solve the same root problems). The notification bubbles are associated with an indicator menu via a speech-bubble like tail. So an empathy message would be associated with the messaging

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-17 Thread Omar B .
inside the MM they are not obvious, is not just emesene. There needs to be a way to make it more obvious. Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:29:32 +0530 From: staticd.growthecomm...@gmail.com To: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Notifications

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-17 Thread James Jenner
On 18 November 2011 03:54, Jo-Erlend Schinstad joerlend.schins...@gmail.com wrote: Den 17. nov. 2011 17:59, skrev staticd: Why? This is something people have complained about in Windows for many years. After logging in; System: «Java must be upgraded» User: «Oh, but I just wanted to read

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-17 Thread Omar B .
...@gmail.com To: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity Den 17. nov. 2011 19:17, skrev Omar B.: i agree with you. My dad has spent over 20.000 hours in front of a computer and he only knows how to use firefox, send an email, open a pdf and maybe login

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-17 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 18. nov. 2011 04:51, skrev Omar B.: - the items that now hide inside the MM are the icons (or what used to be icons in the panel/systray). ref.

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-16 Thread Omar B .
: joerlend.schins...@gmail.com To: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity Den 15. nov. 2011 19:15, skrev Omar B.: Yes, i think something like that would at least make it easier to understand. for example

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-16 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 16. nov. 2011 18:38, skrev Omar B.: you are a geek am sure you figure it out in 10 seconds, but i dont think you've actually seen new non technical users trying to use their applications and then getting hidden in that menu: https://github.com/emesene/emesene/issues/829 So your argument

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-16 Thread Omar B .
...@gmail.com To: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity Den 16. nov. 2011 18:38, skrev Omar B.: you are a geek am sure you figure it out in 10 seconds, but i dont think you've actually seen new non technical users

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-16 Thread Omar B .
: isan...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:17:11 -0700 Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity To: estela...@hotmail.com CC: joerlend.schins...@gmail.com; ayatana@lists.launchpad.net and who will do the explanation ? you ? will you be the one holding the hand of every new non

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-16 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 16. nov. 2011 20:37, skrev Omar B.: would be nice if MM displayed some kind of notification telling users their app has minimized inside or something like that. Would help avoid quite a few headaches for both users and employees. Open a terminal and enter the following: notify-send

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-15 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
No reason to discuss this. It is a core design value. Notifications are transient. Indicators are persistent. And it is not more intuitive that a bubble is clickable than it not being clickable. For instance, these types of notifications have been used on TV for decades without people trying

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-15 Thread Omar B .
] Notifications in unity No reason to discuss this. It is a core design value. Notifications are transient. Indicators are persistent. And it is not more intuitive that a bubble is clickable than it not being clickable. For instance, these types of notifications have been used on TV for decades

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-15 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 15. nov. 2011 19:06, skrev Omar B.: For instance, these types of notifications have been used on TV for decades without people trying to touch their screens. the difference is that computers are interactive. if a user clicks a notification is because they want immediate access to it

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-15 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 15. nov. 2011 19:15, skrev Omar B.: Yes, i think something like that would at least make it easier to understand. for example a popular site like facebook always shows the bubbles pointing to specific places of the screen so the user can spot where it came from or what needs attention. I