[Ayatana] Fwd: Pidgin notifications flood on slow internet connections

2009-06-01 Thread tacone
Apologies, resending to the list. > Agreed - Pidgin should be smarter at telling the difference between "me > logging on" and "buddy logging on". If I am not wrong the new default instant messenger for Karmic will be Empathy, though. Does it behave better ? Stefano

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications are annoying when typing in the upper right corner of a window

2009-06-01 Thread Steve Dodier
When you're browsing the web, how long can you stay moving the mouse, scrolling, without any decent (lets say 10 seconds) delay ? Sometimes, quite a while. This could delay notifications too much since you'd have the time to popup only one notification before the user moves again (and anyways if he

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications are annoying when typing in the upper right corner of a window

2009-06-01 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno lun, 01/06/2009 alle 21.59 +0200, Mark Shuttleworth ha scritto: > > > That sounds very useful - both dropdowns and menus have "brittle > state", it's hard to recover from a slip except by reproducing the > actions that setup that point in the interaction. I'd be +1 on > deferring, at lea

Re: [Ayatana] Pidgin notifications flood on slow internet connections

2009-06-01 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Agreed - Pidgin should be smarter at telling the difference between "me logging on" and "buddy logging on". Mark signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpa

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications are annoying when typing in the upper right corner of a window

2009-06-01 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: > kwin can also know when a dropdown or context menu is open. i've been looking > into the possibility of delaying notifications which occur during these types > of interactions for n seconds. several researcher groups have found > significant > benefits for these types

Re: [Ayatana] Pidgin notifications flood on slow internet connections

2009-06-01 Thread Andrew Barbaccia
> > Perhaps this should be > the default setting/behavior? > > I personally think the default should still be on (and I have many contacts in my list ~400), but when you initially sign on it should not show a pop-up. This makes sense too since when you initially sign on, you'll probably have the

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications are annoying when typing in the upper right corner of a window

2009-06-01 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno lun, 01/06/2009 alle 11.55 -0400, Celeste Lyn Paul ha scritto: > On Monday 01 June 2009 11:19:31 am Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > > Il giorno lun, 01/06/2009 alle 10.30 -0400, Celeste Lyn Paul ha scritto: > > > kwin can also know when a dropdown or context menu is open. i've been > > > lookin

Re: [Ayatana] Pidgin notifications flood on slow internet connections

2009-06-01 Thread Mike Rooney
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > As I expect that it is too late to solve this in jaunty (what a pity!) > the easy workaround is to go to the pidgin plugins configuration, edit > the configuration of libnotify notifications and disable some events. If > you have 100 contac

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications are annoying when typing in the upper right corner of a window

2009-06-01 Thread Celeste Lyn Paul
On Monday 01 June 2009 11:19:31 am Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > Il giorno lun, 01/06/2009 alle 10.30 -0400, Celeste Lyn Paul ha scritto: > > kwin can also know when a dropdown or context menu is open. i've been > > looking > > into the possibility of delaying notifications which occur during > > these

Re: [Ayatana] Pidgin notifications flood on slow internet connections

2009-06-01 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno lun, 01/06/2009 alle 16.26 +0100, Przemek Kulczycki ha scritto: > > I'm using a 3G modem connection and I've noticed that Pidgin makes a > flood of notifications (Xxx is available) once it connects to > Jabber/XMPP /other protocols. > These notifications last for at least 2 minutes becau

[Ayatana] Pidgin notifications flood on slow internet connections

2009-06-01 Thread Przemek Kulczycki
Hi. I'm using a 3G modem connection and I've noticed that Pidgin makes a flood of notifications (Xxx is available) once it connects to Jabber/XMPP /other protocols. These notifications last for at least 2 minutes because I have over 100 contacts. This is very useless and annoying. Something should

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications are annoying when typing in the upper right corner of a window

2009-06-01 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno lun, 01/06/2009 alle 10.30 -0400, Celeste Lyn Paul ha scritto: > > kwin can also know when a dropdown or context menu is open. i've been > looking > into the possibility of delaying notifications which occur during > these types > of interactions for n seconds. several researcher group

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications are annoying when typing in the upper right corner of a window

2009-06-01 Thread Mirco Müller
Greetings Vincenzo! Am Montag, den 01.06.2009, 16:23 +0200 schrieb Vincenzo Ciancia: > > It's a good idea, but that's outside the capabilities of X today, > > would require major surgery to address, and there are other > > initiatives that would give more immediate gratification. > > Doesn't kde

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications are annoying when typing in the upper right corner of a window

2009-06-01 Thread Celeste Lyn Paul
On Monday 01 June 2009 10:23:34 am Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > Il giorno lun, 01/06/2009 alle 15.34 +0200, Mark Shuttleworth ha > > scritto: > > It's a good idea, but that's outside the capabilities of X today, > > would require major surgery to address, and there are other > > initiatives that would

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications are annoying when typing in the upper right corner of a window

2009-06-01 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno lun, 01/06/2009 alle 15.34 +0200, Mark Shuttleworth ha scritto: > > > > It's a good idea, but that's outside the capabilities of X today, > would require major surgery to address, and there are other > initiatives that would give more immediate gratification. Doesn't kde already do suc

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications are annoying when typing in the upper right corner of a window

2009-06-01 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Scott Ritchie wrote: > That still presents the same problem if the user is typing there for > some reason. Isn't there some way the system could detect if the user > is putting text into an active edit field that the notifications would > overlap? > It's a good idea, but that's outside the cap