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

2009-06-02 Thread Scott Ritchie
Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > 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

Re: [Ayatana] "Power information" notifications

2009-06-02 Thread Mike Rooney
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Steve Dodier wrote: > Hello, > > I've been having a look at gnome-power-manager's notifications lately, and I > found out that it was popping up notifications with 4 to 7 lines, which is > far from optimal. I've quickly made some icons and text changes in order to >

[Ayatana] "Power information" notifications

2009-06-02 Thread Steve Dodier
Hello, I've been having a look at gnome-power-manager's notifications lately, and I found out that it was popping up notifications with 4 to 7 lines, which is far from optimal. I've quickly made some icons and text changes in order to try to make these notifications more little - thus faster to re

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

2009-06-02 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno mar, 02/06/2009 alle 09.26 -0700, Mike Rooney ha scritto: > imagine > playing a flash game My point is just that motion-eye coordination is harder than other tasks and distracting the eye during this is not wise. While you are playing a flash game perhaps the last thing you want is to re

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

2009-06-02 Thread Steve Dodier
Hello, I think Mike said what i wanted to say. My worry is that you get a notification as soon as you stop typing. Usually, when i'm typing a document (i'm not speaking about forms, which indeed require me to watch the label of the fields i'm filling), the only moments when i stop are when i need

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

2009-06-02 Thread Mike Rooney
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:27 AM, David Barth wrote: > Steve Dodier wrote: >> [...] >> I think it's a good idea to delay the notifications when we know for sure >> we'll break an activity (for instance, drop a non important notification >> when evince or ooo presenter is fullscreen, or when the user

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

2009-06-02 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: > On Tuesday 02 June 2009 10:28:04 am Aurélien Gâteau wrote: >> David Barth wrote: >>> I'm also very interested in Celeste's suggestion of having a monitor, >>> similar to what kwin does, to delay the display of notifications. >>> >>> Aurélien: could you take a look at this

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

2009-06-02 Thread Celeste Lyn Paul
On Tuesday 02 June 2009 10:28:04 am Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > David Barth wrote: > > I'm also very interested in Celeste's suggestion of having a monitor, > > similar to what kwin does, to delay the display of notifications. > > > > Aurélien: could you take a look at this last one? > > kdelibs provi

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

2009-06-02 Thread David Barth
Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > David Barth wrote: > >> I'm also very interested in Celeste's suggestion of having a monitor, >> similar to what kwin does, to delay the display of notifications. >> >> Aurélien: could you take a look at this last one? >> > > kdelibs provides an API to interact with

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

2009-06-02 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
David Barth wrote: > I'm also very interested in Celeste's suggestion of having a monitor, > similar to what kwin does, to delay the display of notifications. > > Aurélien: could you take a look at this last one? kdelibs provides an API to interact with the window manager. This makes it easy to l

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

2009-06-02 Thread David Barth
Steve Dodier wrote: > [...] > I think it's a good idea to delay the notifications when we know for sure > we'll break an activity (for instance, drop a non important notification > when evince or ooo presenter is fullscreen, or when the user is browsing a > menu, delay the notifications till one se

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

2009-06-02 Thread David Barth
Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > 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