Hi, On Sat, 18 Feb 2017, at 19:46, Albert Vaca wrote: > Then, if a notification is not persistent, this means you can no longer > interact with it, which results in a bad user experience. > > I've found myself subconsciously learning to approach notifications slowly > and with care to avoid this. Has this happened to you as well?
Yes! I've often couldn't finish reading a notification. > I've thought about two different solutions: > > - A potential solution would be to require a minimum amount of time (eg: > 200ms) for the cursor to be on the notification until it is considered "read" > and can be dismissed on un-hover. > > - A different approach would be to just disable this behavior and require the > user to click the notification or the "x" button on it, to acknowledge it has > been read and dismiss it. > > I personally prefer the first option, because I like the auto-dismiss > behavior we have, but other desktops like Plasma are opting for the second > one. What do you think? I'd also prefer the first option, but would suggest, that the length of the notification text could be taken into account for the timeout. _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
