[Ayatana] Firefox notifications

2009-06-10 Thread Przemek Kulczycki
Will you extend the current notifications for Firefox and other apps? There is a 3rd party extension for Firefox which provides notifications for download-complete messages. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9622 Maybe it could be extended to get all Firefox notifications to use libnot

Re: [Ayatana] Interactive notifications idea

2009-06-10 Thread tacone
reposting to the whole list. >> My proposal brings consistency to the whole, avoiding different look, >> feel and behaviour between interactive and non interactive >> notifications. [mac_v] wrote: > if a system feature behavior behaves differently, then it should > definitely look different from

Re: [Ayatana] Interactive notifications idea

2009-06-10 Thread tacone
> this is somewhat similar to what i had proposed sometime ago> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDesignGuidelines/Comments#Notification%20tags%20[for%20persistent%20notifications] No, it's different, in the way it behaves exactly as a normal notification. It always disappears on mouse over, e

Re: [Ayatana] Interactive notifications idea

2009-06-10 Thread mac_v
tacone wrote: > > What do you think ? > > this is somewhat similar to what i had proposed sometime ago> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDesignGuidelines/Comments#Notification%20tags%20[for%20persistent%20notifications] and mpt's reply was> ""We think we have good reasons for not allowing

Re: [Ayatana] Yip: An Unified Notification System for the Web

2009-06-10 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno mer, 10/06/2009 alle 20.14 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia ha scritto: > Il giorno mer, 10/06/2009 alle 16.42 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth ha > scritto: > > > > > > > Right - that's why it's useful to think about having the messaging > > indicator exposed too, because it addresses the primary uses

[Ayatana] Interactive notifications idea

2009-06-10 Thread tacone
I had an idea for notifications which require interaction. I've read about morphing windows on the Wiki but I think that they would undermine consistency a bit. I'm attaching a mockup to this mail, but I'm so bad at using Gimp that much of what I'm proposing will be left to your ability of underst

Re: [Ayatana] Yip: An Unified Notification System for the Web

2009-06-10 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno mer, 10/06/2009 alle 16.42 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth ha scritto: > > > > Right - that's why it's useful to think about having the messaging > indicator exposed too, because it addresses the primary uses cases > that drove click-on-notifications. > > Mark Are you still, and will you alw

Re: [Ayatana] Yip: An Unified Notification System for the Web

2009-06-10 Thread tacone
> I think adding an initial dialogue before allowing the site to use the > indicator applet >  "Allow / deny www.site.com to display updates via indicator applet" > should be considered. > > With an easy way to revoke the permissions later if the user find the > site spamming. > > these two feature

Re: [Ayatana] Yip: An Unified Notification System for the Web

2009-06-10 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > Il giorno mer, 10/06/2009 alle 12.16 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth ha > scritto: > >> Jorge O. Castro wrote: >> >>> Thought it might be of interest to this list: >>> http://abcdefu.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/introducing-yip-an-unified-notification-system-for-the-web/ >>>

[Ayatana] Plans for thunderbird and its mail notifications?

2009-06-10 Thread mac_v
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, As a user of thunderbird, i would like to know: 1) Does Ubuntu plan to have the thunderbird mail notifications display via notify-osd? i have used various thunderbird addons which display using the notify-osd... and the better of the lot is the

Re: [Ayatana] Yip: An Unified Notification System for the Web

2009-06-10 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno mer, 10/06/2009 alle 12.16 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth ha scritto: > Jorge O. Castro wrote: > > Thought it might be of interest to this list: > > http://abcdefu.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/introducing-yip-an-unified-notification-system-for-the-web/ > > > Looks interesting. Anyone interested

Re: [Ayatana] Yip: An Unified Notification System for the Web

2009-06-10 Thread mac_v
Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > A big part of our job in putting together the messaging indicator is > figuring out how to "defend the usability" of something that can be > messed up by a rogue app. For example, if an app spams the messaging > indicator, it spoils it for all the other apps. > > Ma

Re: [Ayatana] Yip: An Unified Notification System for the Web

2009-06-10 Thread Seif Lotfy
I am not sure if this is the right place here but after the sucessful rewrite of the zeitgeist engine i was thinking of pushing *user selected* "notifications (as in events) from also selected dataproviders" to libnotify those dataproviders start from twitter and already working on facebook and gma

Re: [Ayatana] Yip: An Unified Notification System for the Web

2009-06-10 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Steve Dodier wrote: > What would be the practical use of it using libnotify when we're > actually trying to get notifications to be used for system-to-user > notifications and indicator-applet used for chat/im-apps-to-user > communication ? Wouldn't it be even better to try to make this work > with

Re: [Ayatana] Yip: An Unified Notification System for the Web

2009-06-10 Thread Steve Dodier
What would be the practical use of it using libnotify when we're actually trying to get notifications to be used for system-to-user notifications and indicator-applet used for chat/im-apps-to-user communication ? Wouldn't it be even better to try to make this work with indicator-applet ? _

Re: [Ayatana] Yip: An Unified Notification System for the Web

2009-06-10 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Jorge O. Castro wrote: > Thought it might be of interest to this list: > http://abcdefu.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/introducing-yip-an-unified-notification-system-for-the-web/ > Looks interesting. Anyone interested in giving it a libnotify backend? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital sign