On 24/03/10 20:27, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Conscious User <consciousu...@aol.com> wrote: > >> >>> At the risk of sounding facetious, we are talking about *ephemeral* >>> notifications, correct? Somewhere along the line the vocabulary was >>> changed and it took me a few emails to realise people weren't talking >>> about look and feel. Unless light, airy, and tenuous is some high >>> level experience goal for the notification design. >>> >> I think the word "ethereal" is being used in the "cannot be touched" >> (cannot be interacted with) sense. >> > So this is different from the original definition that notifications > are ephemeral, meaning information of the moment? Or is this in > addition to? >
It was just a synaptic crossed wire, sorry. Yes, notifications should be thought of as ephemeral. And yes, the notify-OSD rendering is a particular kind of overlay that can be clicked through (we'd like to use that for other overlays, when appropriate, so we do need a good name for that). "Ethereal" wasn't a conscious choice though, just a word that popped out. Mark
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