I like it alot. I've grown quite fond of the Android notifications and feel they solve the notification problem better than both Windows and the current Notify OSD bubbles (which have none the less made great progress in unifying notifications on Ubuntu).
I'll assume that once the notification text fades there is a menu indicator that can retrieve (at least some) past messages, and launch the app used to view them. Going along Android lines a click on the indicator could bring up a full-screen notification window (at the user's convenience) and be easily dismissed or used to launch an email or IM application for instance. I believe this indicator would work great both for a mouse (click the indicator) or with a touch gesture from the top of the screen (as on Android). For any notification that was truely not worth keeping around it could "fade" from the collapsed notification window after 5 seconds or so (never to be seen again or missed) or be clicked to dismiss if the user is curious and opens the notification window shortly after the notification to see what they missed. Apps would either tag their notifications to persist for long periods or to fade almost immediately (and of course the notification your gif illustrates fades the same way as the current Notify OSD bubbles). On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Apoorva Sharma <appi2...@gmail.com> wrote: > I went ahead and made a mockup of my "notification in the panel" idea, > borrowing heavily from what android does. I've attached an animated gif > showing a basic notification popping up. > > I want to make it clear that the entire panel does not fade out, but simply > the indicator-menus and notification applet, and like notify-osd, fades out > if the user brings the pointer over it, trying This keeps all windows > visible, and all panel icons visible. > > Another failure of the mockup is that the message indicator should light up > after the notification. > > What do you think? > > _______________________________________________ > 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
