Re: [Ayatana] GSoC '10 Idea : NotifyOSD improvements

2010-03-15 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Jim Rorie wrote: > I haven't seen nor read about another distro picking it up, outside > those downstream from Ubuntu.  What's more disconcerting is that Mozilla > hasn't committed.  And I don't blame them.  To implement notifications > is to lose functionality. h

Re: [Ayatana] GSoC '10 Idea : NotifyOSD improvements

2010-03-15 Thread Scott Kitterman
"Mike Rooney" wrote: >On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > >> We've been pushing this 'ethereal notification' idea for a long time. Has >> anybody outside Ubuntu picked up on it? Why or why not? Is it a direction >> that should be continued on, or is a course-change requir

Re: [Ayatana] GSoC '10 Idea : NotifyOSD improvements

2010-03-15 Thread Jim Rorie
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 11:18 -0600, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > We've been pushing this 'ethereal notification' idea for a long time. > Has anybody outside Ubuntu picked up on it? Why or why not? Is it a > direction that should be continued on, or is a course-change required? I haven't seen nor read a

Re: [Ayatana] GSoC '10 Idea : NotifyOSD improvements

2010-03-15 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
On 15 March 2010 23:20, Scott E. Armitage wrote: > I couldn't agree more; the notification system introduced with NotifyOSD is, > on the whole, awesome, and I couldn't imagine going back to stupid little > balloon tips tat pop up with a distracting noise and demand to be shooed > away. > -S > It

Re: [Ayatana] GSoC '10 Idea : NotifyOSD improvements

2010-03-15 Thread Oscar RdG
+1 On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Scott E. Armitage < launch...@scott.armitage.name> wrote: > I couldn't agree more; the notification system introduced with NotifyOSD > is, on the whole, awesome, and I couldn't imagine going back to stupid > little balloon tips tat pop up with a distracting noi

Re: [Ayatana] GSoC '10 Idea : NotifyOSD improvements

2010-03-15 Thread Scott E. Armitage
I couldn't agree more; the notification system introduced with NotifyOSD is, on the whole, awesome, and I couldn't imagine going back to stupid little balloon tips tat pop up with a distracting noise and demand to be shooed away. -S On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Mike Rooney wrote: > On Mon,

Re: [Ayatana] GSoC '10 Idea : NotifyOSD improvements

2010-03-15 Thread Mike Rooney
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > We've been pushing this 'ethereal notification' idea for a long time. Has > anybody outside Ubuntu picked up on it? Why or why not? Is it a direction > that should be continued on, or is a course-change required? I think it's awesome, an

Re: [Ayatana] GSoC '10 Idea : NotifyOSD improvements

2010-03-15 Thread Sohail Mirza
As a lay-user if Ubuntu, I would propose reconsidering the idea of ethereal notification. To this day, *every* time I have moused over the notification, it has been with the intention of dismissing it (only to realize that I can't dismiss it). If unintended dismissal is such an issue, then perhaps

Re: [Ayatana] GSoC '10 Idea : NotifyOSD improvements

2010-03-15 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
We've been pushing this 'ethereal notification' idea for a long time. Has anybody outside Ubuntu picked up on it? Why or why not? Is it a direction that should be continued on, or is a course-change required? On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:54, Scott E. Armitage < launch...@scott.armitage.name> wrote:

Re: [Ayatana] GSoC '10 Idea : NotifyOSD improvements

2010-03-15 Thread Jim Rorie
> > This interferes with the idea of notifications being ethereal -- as it > stands, if I want to close an app whose close box is hidden by a > notification, it doesn't change my work flow, I simply click /through/ > the notification. Has anyone considered a key sequence for power users? _

Re: [Ayatana] GSoC '10 Idea : NotifyOSD improvements

2010-03-15 Thread Scott E. Armitage
One comment off the bat: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Akshay Gupta wrote: > 2.) A close button on the corner of the bubble as soon as a mouseover > occurs (like Growl, instead of disappearing away) > This interferes with the idea of notifications being ethereal -- as it stands, if I want t

[Ayatana] GSoC '10 Idea : NotifyOSD improvements

2010-03-15 Thread Akshay Gupta
Hey, all. I posted a GSoC project Idea on the ubuntu-soc list yesterday and I thought it'd be more appropriate if I run it down by developers in the Ayatana list. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-soc/2010-March/47.html Some of the things that this project could help solve : 1.) Make