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

2010-03-24 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 24/03/10 20:06, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: > At the risk of sounding facetious, we are talking about *ephemeral* > notifications, correct? Somewhere along the line the vocabulary was > changed and it took me a few emails to realise people weren't talking > about look and feel. Unless light, airy,

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

2010-03-24 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 24/03/10 20:27, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Conscious User wrote: > >> >>> At the risk of sounding facetious, we are talking about *ephemeral* >>> notifications, correct? Somewhere along the line the vocabulary was >>> changed and it took me a few emails t

Re: [Ayatana] Window button order

2010-03-24 Thread Allan Caeg
Hello Everyone, On UXExchange.com, I asked this question "How should window buttons be positioned and arranged? " to hear opinions from the right people. So far, there are already 3 answers and I'm expectin

Re: [Ayatana] Tooltips

2010-03-24 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 23/03/10 20:40, Alex Launi wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Jim Rorie > wrote: > > BTW, the new icon appears to be pulsing during acquisition. I thought > this was a no no? > > > Blinking as a sole means of alerting the user to an event is a no-no, >

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

2010-03-24 Thread Celeste Lyn Paul
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Conscious User wrote: > >> At the risk of sounding facetious, we are talking about *ephemeral* >> notifications, correct? Somewhere along the line the vocabulary was >> changed and it took me a few emails to realise people weren't talking >> about look and feel. Un

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

2010-03-24 Thread Conscious User
> At the risk of sounding facetious, we are talking about *ephemeral* > notifications, correct? Somewhere along the line the vocabulary was > changed and it took me a few emails to realise people weren't talking > about look and feel. Unless light, airy, and tenuous is some high > level experience

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

2010-03-24 Thread Celeste Lyn Paul
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > On 15/03/10 18:01, Jim Rorie wrote: >> Essentially, what the problem is that the spec removed a common desktop >> level interactive loop and replaced it with multiple ad-hoc application >> level paths.  It created the a problem similar to

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

2010-03-24 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
On 24 March 2010 05:37, Jan Claeys wrote: > Op vrijdag 19-03-2010 om 08:53 uur [tijdzone +], schreef Mark > Shuttleworth: >> On 19/03/10 02:36, Jan Claeys wrote: >> >> I'm not sure a typical flasher is a good solution.  I think a >> subtle >> >> animation that triggered every 15 seconds or so

Re: [Ayatana] Window button order

2010-03-24 Thread Jan-Christoph Borchardt
On 24 March 2010 09:58, Alex Lourie wrote: > I'm sorry to interrupt such a nice discussion, but what impact this > "usability" testing would have? > No sensible user (at least not the one from general public) would ever read > the results of such a test. The usability testing results are not for

Re: [Ayatana] Window button order

2010-03-24 Thread Alex Lourie
I'm sorry to interrupt such a nice discussion, but what impact this "usability" testing would have? No sensible user (at least not the one from general public) would ever read the results of such a test. All that people would care about in buttons placement is whether it is convenient or not. If t