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] idea for notifications

2010-01-24 Thread Mike Rooney
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Daniel Hollocher wrote: > Hello, > I have an idea for notifications.  Since this idea is like 2 big ideas > requiring several little changes, I'm opting against a brainstorm or > wishlist type item, and am looking for a discussion.  Is this the > place?  I have alr

Re: [Ayatana] Notification consistency

2009-09-07 Thread Mike Rooney
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Steve Dodier wrote: >> > Also I was thinking that firefox should use notify-osd to display when a >> > download is finished. I know that an addon for firefox exists so why not >> > use it by default? > > +1 too, but it'll require Mozilla to natively support libnotify

Re: [Ayatana] Notify OSD: Talk about giving the user preferences

2009-08-31 Thread Mike Rooney
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 5:49 AM, Angel Guzman Maeso wrote: > Ubuntu is a great distribution. Success is achieving progress in recent > years thanks to the great community and the efforts of its developers. > However, users are becoming more demanding and require the best possible > results. > > Wit

Re: [Ayatana] New notification placement

2009-08-31 Thread Mike Rooney
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Mirco Müller wrote: > >        Questions now are... should the fade-prevention still kick in, if the > mouse pointer is hidden? Nope, I don't think so. The user can't see the mouse and is not aware of its position, so it will lead to a confusing experience (it took

Re: [Ayatana] New notification placement

2009-08-28 Thread Mike Rooney
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Mirco Müller wrote: > Am Freitag, den 28.08.2009, 11:14 +0200 schrieb David Barth: >> Mark Shuttleworth wrote: >> > Mirco Müller wrote: >> > >> > > Am Freitag, den 28.08.2009, 09:30 +0100 schrieb Mark Shuttleworth: >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > ... >> > > > Mirco, i

Re: [Ayatana] New notification placement

2009-08-27 Thread Mike Rooney
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Alex Launi wrote: > A bit ago I did my set of updates, which included the new release of > notify-osd, which are placed a bit lower than midway down the screen. > Putting these that far down the screen is really disrupting, and much more > flawed than their origina

Re: [Ayatana] Battery is charged popup

2009-07-16 Thread Mike Rooney
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > I am using karmic, g-p-m version 2.27.2. I istinctively clicked on "do not > show this notification anymore" so I don't know how to bring it back to > check if it was just a temporary problem. I too noticed that pop-up last night in Karmic

Re: [Ayatana] Updates on Login

2009-07-06 Thread Mike Rooney
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:42 PM, mac_v wrote: > Scott Kitterman wrote: >> >> On the other hand, fast boot is an explicit Ubuntu design goal for a >> variety of reasons including users typically start their computers because >> they want to use them. >> >> Before getting too set on installing update

Re: [Ayatana] New discussion suggested: Features needed, but absent in Ubuntu

2009-06-19 Thread Mike Rooney
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 9:23 AM, David Siegel wrote: > Many of these are great usability enhancements, but they are also feature > requests so they do not qualify as paper cuts. If you see a great feature > request in here that you believe would improve usability in Ubuntu, tag the > bug "feature-r

Re: [Ayatana] Rhythmbox album art + Notify-osd]

2009-06-08 Thread Mike Rooney
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 4:09 PM, mac_v wrote: >> >> >> Hi, >> I recently noticed that the album art displayed , when the songs chang >> are blurred, since they display at the small scale ... >> >> Any plans to change this behavior? >> >> If rhythmbox is going to be allowed to use notify-osd then the

Re: [Ayatana] Things I have noticed

2009-06-04 Thread Mike Rooney
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:00 PM, David Siegel wrote: > 2. Provide a way for the user to explicitly block and unblock most if not > all notifications to prevent embarrassment. Even if we are perfectly > prescient and block all embarrassing notifications at just the right times, > the user will stil

Re: [Ayatana] Things I have noticed

2009-06-04 Thread Mike Rooney
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > What I mean is that we need a mode ("busy" in FUSA would be just nice) > where the actions that the computer takes are under the control of the > user. That is what I proposed at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/notify-osd/+bug/3

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 >

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] Pidgin notifications flood on slow internet connections

2009-06-01 Thread Mike Rooney
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > As I expect that it is too late to solve this in jaunty (what a pity!) > the easy workaround is to go to the pidgin plugins configuration, edit > the configuration of libnotify notifications and disable some events. If > you have 100 contac

Re: [Ayatana] Message Indicator message weighting

2009-05-05 Thread Mike Rooney
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:47 AM, wrote: > > This would address one of the current short comings in the messaging > indicator with respect to missing more important messages due to having some > low priority ones waiting. It shouldn't be difficult to implement either. > Thought? Comments? This so