On Sun, 10 May 2009 16:14:25 -0500 Ted Gould <t...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 22:19 +0300, Natan Yellin wrote: > >> Mike is sitting at his computer and working in Inkscape when several >> emails arrive. In the past, Mike has clicked on the indicator icon to >> get rid of the dot but has always ignored the messages themselves. >> Therefore, the emails are assigned low priority and the icon only >> shows a green dot. >> >> After a few minutes, Mike closes Inkscape and decides to work on his >> latest project at work. He opens up a file that a colleague emailed >> him and begins to edit it. The system notices that the tags on his >> document match the tags on one of the emails that he received, so the >> indicator icon changes to a yellow dot. >> >> An hour later Mike receives another email and evolution automatically >> inserts the email into the global database. The notifications system >> receives is told that a new email arrived and automatically does a >> query for similar items. It notices that the document Mike is editing >> was sent to him by the same person who sent the new email. The >> indicator icon turns red to reflect this, and Mike receives a relevant >> notification. >> [End of scenario] > >While I applaud Mike for using Inkscape I think that in general there is >to much "magic" in how things are working here. For instance, why the >dot changed color is not obvious to the user, it basically becomes "the >computer thinks it has something for me." Chances are, that it won't be >100% accurate, so people will tend to ignore it over time. > >I think that what might be more interesting is to look at displaying the >tags in a document and allowing the user to explore based on those. >That way the user is driving and exploring those relationships. It >isn't as good from the technology demo perspective, but it would keep >the user feeling in control, and understand better where misses occur >from. > "To much magic" was pretty much my reaction when I read this suggestion.
I don't use notifications for mail because I get far to much of it. I have lots of rules I've built into my chosen mail client (Kmail). I might be interested in rules to get notified if mail lands in a certain folder (it also occurs to me I ought to see if Kmail suppports this already). Scott K _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
