Indeed, And to start brainstorming potential solutions:
1) Maybe there is a minimum 'appearance' time for the notification of maybe about 0.75 seconds to prevent involuntary dismissal. The ideal timing may involve some investment in research. 2) The notification dismisses to a small, flashing icon in the top panel which hangs around for about 5 seconds so that the user can retrieve a lost notification. I think in 99.9% of cases the user will be aware that they have accidentally dismissed something. The button could potentially bring up a drop down list - just in case multiple notifications have happened in short succession. On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 17:19 +0200, Conscious User wrote: > > A notification appears (the mouse cursor is not below the notification). > > The user is now notified. When they move their mouse to that area (bear > > in mind that they are 'notified' and have no further use for the > > graphic) it once again fades away and reappears when the cursor departs. > > This, irritatingly hangs around for about 5 seconds. > > > > I know! I am notified! Why are you hanging about cluttering my screen? > > Because hovering your mouse over the notification does not necessarily > mean that you have already read it. It could also mean that what you > wanted to click on was more urgent than reading the notification or > that you were already in the process of going there to click something > and didn't want to stop (or simply couldn't stop, as a lot of actions > we do in the desktop are repetitive and become automatic and lightning > quick after a while). > > At least for me, both of those cases are not rare. > > > In my opinion (unless the notification does something like launching the > > relevant app or is dismiss-able by clicking on x) it should simply > > vanish when the user moves their mouse cursor over it. > > That would probably cause a lot of accidental dismissals. > > Believe me, I'm the first in line to complain that NotifyOSD is *far* > from being perfect, but as you can see it is not exactly trivial to > come up with fixes that do not cause other, significative, problems. > There are a lot of different cases to consider. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
