-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Christian Rupp wrote on 15/11/11 16:06: > > Currently notifications in unity are what they called: > notifications: they don't do anything else... I really like in GS > to be able to answer immediately or a friend complained that he > wants to click on the notification to open the program behind. > > First of all I would move the bubble closer to the panel
That looks much nicer. > Then after a short delay i would "minimize" it if you click on it > in this state it would open the application which is linked (in > this case banshee) How would people understand that it did something different when clicked in large state vs. small state? I don't know of any other case where something getting smaller indicates that it's clickable. > If it would be a chat program and you would hover the minimized > bubble it shows a text field, where you can enter a message... if > you click on the bubble above the field it would open the chat > window > > ... Chat programs already have an interface for entering a message: the chat window. The design principle of parsimony suggests that we should first try using the same interface for notifying you of a conversation as for participating in the conversation. At the moment, there are two main reasons chat programs don't do that on Ubuntu. The first reason is that a chat window wouldn't be noticable unless it was frontmost; it's difficult (or little-known) to make a window frontmost without making it take focus; and if a window takes focus while you're working, that's annoying. That can be fixed, by figuring out what code makes a window frontmost without being focused, publicizing that code if it's simple, or putting it in a library if it's hard. The second reason is that a chat window would take up much more space than a notification bubble does. That too can be fixed, by making the window small before you click it, and enlarging it after you click it. Here's a mockup of this idea from 2009, for the similar case of a file share. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDesignGuidelines#Morphing_window> - -- mpt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk7U8h8ACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecpDegCcC7kNEniDlVDiXI+r/YEYbHha x78AoI+2dgqfFTttbtCk8Rt94kWsjFMh =zGkQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
