On 30/03/2009 Michael Rooney wrote: > > > But the windows itself could be minimised. Let's explore that. I > > > think it may be too late for Jaunty but I'll see what we can do. > > > > > That is a really wonderful idea! I think this would solve a lot of the > usability issues and also eliminate any bugs regarding z-ordering / > focus > issues. >
I tought about this today; while minimised windows are better, they will get in the way of alt+tab. That's desired, because the idea here is to "interact with the user immediately". But that's wrong with users: suppose I am revising a paper, I constantly alt+tab between the comments that I am writing in plain text, and the pdf of the paper. If a window gets in the middle of the process it distracts me. Now I am tolerant to computers :) But an employee in a non-techie company will inevitably say "who is the System and why does He think that he can ask for my _immediate_ attention???". Now that gives me one more argument to adopt the "instant messaging" interaction pattern: users deal with IM every day. When they don't want to be disturbed they set their status to "busy". We have support for this in the FUSA applet which is on the default desktop. A polite interlocutor will not disturb you while you are busy, unless it's really urgent. A polite System, like ubuntu is expected to be, would in this case postpone the notification. A really urgent notification such as "the system is about to burn, turn it off please" would go trough instead. Vincenzo -- [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332945 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
