Re: [Ayatana] Regarding Notify-OSD's Position in Karmic Koala

2009-10-20 Thread Alex Launi
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Christian Hudon wrote: > > I personally think it'd be really nice (and useful) if something like the > previous email from Mark was made available for every large UI change that > Ubuntu makes. (I don't know... I'm thinking of something similar to the > Python PEPs

Re: [Ayatana] Regarding Notify-OSD's Position in Karmic Koala

2009-10-20 Thread Christian Hudon
Mark Shuttleworth wrote: The position is final for 9.10 but can certainly be reconsidered for Lucid. The factors that need to be considered are: * fitting things into the corner is most aesthetically pleasing * the "synchronous" notifications (like brightness and volume) are fixed in size

Re: [Ayatana] Regarding Notify-OSD's Position in Karmic Koala

2009-10-20 Thread lord metroid
The problem with the middle right in my opinion is that the are is usually occupied with data from other applications such as text one is reading or in the middle of media playback. Making that position more disruptive than in a corner. I don't see why bottom right would be a problem, I don't th

Re: [Ayatana] Regarding Notify-OSD's Position in Karmic Koala

2009-10-20 Thread Luke Benstead
> That's where we settled for 9.10. For 10.04 I would like to revisit the > midpoint of the right hand side. I would not want to rehash old territory, > so please factor in the above in proposing new ideas. I'm of the view that > this decision involves at least one ugly compromise no matter which w

Re: [Ayatana] Regarding Notify-OSD's Position in Karmic Koala

2009-10-20 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Brett Cornwall wrote: > Hello, I'm bringing attention to the mailing list that there's a fair > amount of displeasure at the newly designated spot for notify-osd. You > may read the entire bug report/thread here: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/notify-osd/+bug/438536 > > In a nutshell

[Ayatana] Regarding Notify-OSD's Position in Karmic Koala

2009-10-20 Thread Brett Cornwall
Hello, I'm bringing attention to the mailing list that there's a fair amount of displeasure at the newly designated spot for notify-osd. You may read the entire bug report/thread here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/notify-osd/+bug/438536 In a nutshell, quite a lot of users found th