On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Natan Yellin <aan...@gmail.com> 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 success. > > How about, for starters, adding a gconf option to show an X icon on > notifications. I personally think it makes sense not to have one, but if > people want one then you should let them have it. (And normal users, who > you're trying to train to use notifications in a specific way, will never > turn on the X because they don't even know what gconf is.) > > Either way, thanks a lot for all of the work that you guys have done so > far! It's great to see Canonical getting involved and trying to improve the > user interface. > > Natan > A close button I personally don't see being useful, in the current state of how notifications are displayed. They come and go relatively quickly, and by the time you notice a notification to click the X it may have already disappeared. Actions would be the obvious argument for a hidden option, but this has already been debated to death. 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 those with different GTK themes - Stacking notifications vs queuing. The default behavior is to queue up notifications and display them one after another, though with an active Gwibber you might have non-stop notifications appearing. The ability to have them stack on top of another, possibly with a limit of how many could be on the screen at once (as a user-configurable/gconf setting?) would be nice. I have to admit, when I first saw notify-osd a few months ago, I hated it. But now that more applications are supporting the system, it feels *a lot* better -- not perfect, but better. Jacob Peddicord http://jacob.peddicord.net
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