Re: [Ayatana] Notification consistency

2009-10-12 Thread Jim Rorie
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 07:17 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth > None of those fit in the MI, imo. > > > My thinking of good examples: > > Your download is complete: Pick it up [Here] > > Your print Job failed. Go [Here] to resend to printer. > > Updates are available. Go [Here] to install. > > > Yuck

Re: [Ayatana] Notification consistency

2009-10-12 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Jim Rorie wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 18:39 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > >> To the extent that the things which need responding to really are >> messages, this is appropriate. >> > > What do you feel would be an example of something that wasn't > appropriate? > > My thinking of q

Re: [Ayatana] Notification consistency

2009-10-10 Thread Jim Rorie
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 18:39 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > To the extent that the things which need responding to really are > messages, this is appropriate. What do you feel would be an example of something that wasn't appropriate? My thinking of questionable examples: App crashes. Dialo

Re: [Ayatana] Notification consistency

2009-10-09 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Sorry for taking ages to catch up on this thread. I've snipped a long piece where Jim describes the MI as a generic "respond to notifications" mechanism. Jim Rorie wrote: > Pros: This would provide interactivity through lib notify and quiet a chief > complaint. Users would not be challenged to r

Re: [Ayatana] Notification consistency

2009-09-11 Thread Jim Rorie
On Friday 11,September,2009 04:52 PM, David Barth wrote: > > It is was not on the table for Karmic, that is, Mozilla had reservations > > last year about the non-interactivity of n-osd notifications and I think > > they prefer to see how the rest of the community reacts to our change > > before rec

Re: [Ayatana] Notification consistency

2009-09-11 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:18:34 +0800 Chow Loong Jin wrote: > ... how >about making the actions optional? For example, don't show actions for >notify-osd users (where actions aren't supported), but show actions for >notification-daemon users, much like most of the other applications are doing. ...

Re: [Ayatana] Notification consistency

2009-09-11 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Friday 11,September,2009 04:52 PM, David Barth wrote: > It is was not on the table for Karmic, that is, Mozilla had reservations > last year about the non-interactivity of n-osd notifications and I think > they prefer to see how the rest of the community reacts to our change > before reconsideri

Re: [Ayatana] Notification consistency

2009-09-11 Thread David Barth
mac_v wrote: > From: David Barth > To: Steve Dodier > Cc: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Sent: Wednesday, 9 September, 2009 1:59:44 PM > Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Notification consistency > > Steve Dodier wrote: > >> +1 too, but it'll require Mozilla to n

Re: [Ayatana] Notification consistency

2009-09-10 Thread mac_v
From: David Barth To: Steve Dodier Cc: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Sent: Wednesday, 9 September, 2009 1:59:44 PM Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Notification consistency Steve Dodier wrote: > +1 too, but it'll require Mozilla to natively support libnotify for their > Linux client. I'm ac

Re: [Ayatana] Notification consistency

2009-09-09 Thread David Barth
Steve Dodier wrote: > +1 too, but it'll require Mozilla to natively support libnotify for their > Linux client. I'm actually surprised it's still not the case... > Mozilla has support for libnotify in their trunk branch, but they don't enable that build option by default. Now that the protocol h

Re: [Ayatana] Notification consistency

2009-09-07 Thread Steve Dodier
2009/9/7 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 requir

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] Notification consistency

2009-09-07 Thread Steve Dodier
Hello, > > I was thinking that this info could be displayed in > > notify-osd too. > I have actually tried to do it. It's not possible because the gtk status icon's tooltip-query signal doesn't behave as expected. > > Also I was thinking that firefox should use notify-osd to display when a >

Re: [Ayatana] Notification consistency

2009-09-07 Thread Siegfried Gevatter
2009/9/7 Shane Fagan : > I was thinking that this info could be displayed in > notify-osd too. Please don't, how it's now I can control exactly how long I want to see the information, and the tooltip is placed exactly below where I have my mouse cursor (so I can read the information, decide I want