Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-12-12 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Conscious User wrote on 30/11/11 20:08: > >>> Which reminds me, shouldn't we stop pretending that synchronous >>> and asynchronous notifications are similar enough to deserve >>> being close? They are not, and the current approach causes more >>> prob

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-12-02 Thread Conscious User
Em 02-12-2011 01:45, Chow Loong Jin escreveu: On 02/12/2011 03:45, Dylan McCall wrote: That this is the case should raise a red flag for everyone who has paid attention to NotifyOSD. A big part of the design is that an application can't control where notifications are. It can't treat a notificat

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-12-01 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 02/12/2011 03:45, Dylan McCall wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Conscious User > wrote: >> The most obvious one is the ugly gap when no synchronous notification >> is being shown. But I personally think that making synchronous and >> asynchronous informations have the same appearance

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-12-01 Thread Dylan McCall
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Conscious User wrote: > The most obvious one is the ugly gap when no synchronous notification > is being shown. But I personally think that making synchronous and > asynchronous informations have the same appearance and positioning > is a mistake by itself. That

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-30 Thread Roland Taylor
On 11/15/2011 01:57 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: No reason to discuss this. It is a core design value. Notifications are transient. Indicators are persistent. And it is not more intuitive that a bubble is clickable than it not being clickable. For instance, these types of notifications have b

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-30 Thread Conscious User
Which reminds me, shouldn't we stop pretending that synchronous and asynchronous notifications are similar enough to deserve being close? They are not, and the current approach causes more problems than solves. What problems does it cause? The most obvious one is the ugly gap when no synchro

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-30 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Conscious User wrote on 29/11/11 17:54: > > Em 29-11-2011 12:54, Matthew Paul Thomas escreveu: ... >> >> Christian Rupp wrote on 15/11/11 16:06: > ... >>> >>> First of all I would move the bubble closer to the panel >> >> That looks much nicer. >

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-29 Thread Omar B .
wow, morphing windows, i remember that one :) i really liked how that worked. I wonder how something like this would look/behave today. > Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:54:31 + > From: m...@canonical.com > To: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Notificati

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-29 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Rupp wrote on 15/11/11 16:06: > > Currently notifications in unity are what they called: > notifications: they don't do anything else... I really like in GS > to be able to answer immediately or a friend complained that he > wants to click o

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-18 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 19. nov. 2011 05:22, skrev Roland Taylor: The solution here would be to stop crowding the messaging menu (which really makes no sense), and allow autohiding of indicators, similar to the KDE systray. I agree that the messaging menu is bordering on being crowded, but hiding indications

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-18 Thread Roland Taylor
On 11/18/2011 01:11 AM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: Den 18. nov. 2011 04:51, skrev Omar B.: - the items that now hide inside the MM are the icons (or what used to be icons in the panel/systray). ref. https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com/img/15183cadf2a9cdd7781aea9a6a22b84455adf703/687474

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-18 Thread Callum Saunders
ew > users. Once i finish the details i will try to post it. > > > ------------ > > Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:11:54 +0100 > > From: joerlend.schins...@gmail.com > > To: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > > Subject: Re: [Ayatana]

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-18 Thread Omar B .
s.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity > > Den 18. nov. 2011 04:51, skrev Omar B.: > > - the items that now hide inside the MM are the icons (or what used to be > > icons in the panel/systray). > > > > ref. > > https://a2

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-18 Thread Christian Rupp
Am 18.11.2011 06:11, schrieb Jo-Erlend Schinstad: Read Microsofts description of why that was a horrible idea and why they've wanted to get rid  of it for more than a decade. In short, that system was completely incomprehensible because all apps would work in

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-17 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 18. nov. 2011 04:51, skrev Omar B.: - the items that now hide inside the MM are the icons (or what used to be icons in the panel/systray). ref. https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com/img/15183cadf2a9cdd7781aea9a6a22b84455adf703/687474703a2f2f6935342e74696e797069632e636f6d2f32343136787a

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-17 Thread Omar B .
> From: joerlend.schins...@gmail.com > To: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity > > Den 17. nov. 2011 19:17, skrev Omar B.: > > i agree with you. > > > > My dad has spent over "20.000 hours" in front of a computer and he

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-17 Thread James Jenner
On 18 November 2011 03:54, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: > Den 17. nov. 2011 17:59, skrev staticd: > > Why? This is something people have complained about in Windows for many > years. After logging in; > > System: «Java must be upgraded» > User: «Oh, but I just wanted to read my mail. Can I please

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-17 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 17. nov. 2011 19:17, skrev Omar B.: i agree with you. My dad has spent over "20.000 hours" in front of a computer and he only knows how to use firefox, send an email, open a pdf and maybe login to skype (he cant install it without help). am sure another "10.920 hours" will pass and he wo

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-17 Thread Omar B .
lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity > > Jo-Erlend: > If you spend three hours a day using your computer, then you will have > spent 10.920 hours during the next ten years. Is it more important that > a user can use the system without learning anything,

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-17 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 17. nov. 2011 18:50, skrev Evan Huus: How about this as a sort of counter-proposal (still trying to solve the same root problems). The notification bubbles are associated with an indicator menu via a speech-bubble like tail. So an empathy message would be associated with the messaging indica

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-17 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 17. nov. 2011 17:59, skrev staticd: *(II)Proposal:* 1)To satisfy Design principles and constraints (a) and (b): the notification behaviour remains as it is for the first two seconds, 2)_A mouse over_ after the delay will transform the notification to show a close and a help button(see atta

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-17 Thread Evan Huus
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:59 AM, staticd wrote: > Jo-Erlend: >> >> If you spend three hours a day using your computer, then you will have >> spent 10.920 hours during the next ten years. Is it more important that a >> user can use the system without learning anything, or is it more important >> t

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-16 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 16. nov. 2011 20:37, skrev Omar B.: would be nice if MM displayed some kind of notification telling users their app has minimized inside or something like that. Would help avoid quite a few headaches for both users and employees. Open a terminal and enter the following: notify-send "Emes

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-16 Thread Omar B .
for both users and employees. > From: isan...@gmail.com > Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:17:11 -0700 > Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity > To: estela...@hotmail.com > CC: joerlend.schins...@gmail.com; ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > > > and who will do the explanation ?

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-16 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 16. nov. 2011 20:12, skrev Omar B.: >It takes about ten seconds to *explain* that all kinds of messages is collected in the message menu and that the icon changes color when there is a change in status. *Once you know this*, the system is much easier, more efficient and comfortable to use t

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-16 Thread Ian Santopietro
> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:27:31 +0100 > From: joerlend.schins...@gmail.com > To: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity > > Den 16. nov. 2011 18:38, skrev Omar B.: > > you are a geek am sure you figure it out in 10 seconds, but

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-16 Thread Omar B .
ins...@gmail.com To: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity Den 16. nov. 2011 18:38, skrev Omar B.: you are a geek am sure you figure it out in 10 seconds, but i dont think you've actually seen new non technic

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-16 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 16. nov. 2011 18:38, skrev Omar B.: you are a geek am sure you figure it out in 10 seconds, but i dont think you've actually seen new non technical users trying to use their applications and then getting hidden in that menu: https://github.com/emesene/emesene/issues/829 So your argument

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-16 Thread Omar B .
From: joerlend.schins...@gmail.com To: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity Den 15. nov. 2011 19:15, skrev Omar B.: Yes, i think something like that would at least make it easier to understand. for exam

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-15 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 15. nov. 2011 19:15, skrev Omar B.: Yes, i think something like that would at least make it easier to understand. for example a popular site like facebook always shows the bubbles pointing to specific places of the screen so the user can spot where it came from or what needs attention. I

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-15 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 15. nov. 2011 19:06, skrev Omar B.: >For instance, these > types of notifications have been used on TV for decades without people > trying to touch their screens. the difference is that computers are interactive. if a user clicks a notification is because they want immediate access to it (

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-15 Thread Omar B .
Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity > > No reason to discuss this. It is a core design value. Notifications are > transient. Indicators are persistent. And it is not more intuitive that > a bubble is clickable than it not being clickable. For instance, these > types of no

Re: [Ayatana] Notifications in unity

2011-11-15 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
No reason to discuss this. It is a core design value. Notifications are transient. Indicators are persistent. And it is not more intuitive that a bubble is clickable than it not being clickable. For instance, these types of notifications have been used on TV for decades without people trying to