Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: indicator-messages
When I receive a new email message, the messaging indicator highlights
(goes green, in the default Ubuntu 10.04 theme), and stays highlighted.
When an instant-messaging friend signs on to IM, the messaging indicator
highlights, and then two seconds (approximately) later, unhighlights
(goes back to white), and a notification is displayed.
The messaging indicator highlight catches my eye. So, when it goes
green, I look at it. However, I don't know whether it's a temporary
highlight or a permanent highlight. What this actually means is that
every time the messaging indicator goes green, I stop what I'm doing and
watch it for two seconds to see if it goes back to white again. If it
doesn't, then I bring up the messaging menu and get whatever permanent
message (email, IRC, whatever) caused the highlight. Sitting and
watching the indicator makes me feel rather like one of Pavlov's dogs.
:)
You would think that my brain would think "I got a notification *and*
the indicator went green, so it must be a temporary highlight", but
that's not my observed behaviour. I believe this is because my brain
thinks that someone may have signed on *and* an email may have arrived
at the same time, and can't be convinced otherwise. The highlight will
draw my eye in any case.
Suggestions for ways this could be resolved:
1. Don't highlight the messaging indicator for temporary things like an IM
friend signing on; instead, just rely on the presence of the notification.
2. Highlight the messaging indicator differently for temporary notifications
(maybe a little bit of it should go green, but not all of it). (Having another
colour for temporary highlights is likely to just be confusing.) This would
allow me to glance at the indicator and immediately recognise that the
highlight is temporary, and thus ignore it.
3. Something else I'm not clever enough to think of.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: indicator-messages 0.3.6-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic-pae 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Aug 2 14:46:51 2010
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: indicator-messages
** Affects: indicator-messages (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid ubuntu-unity
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Cannot distinguish between temporary messaging-menu highlight and permanent
highlight
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/612565
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