On 16/09/10 09:34, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > Looking at what synchronous and asynchronous usually mean regarding > communication, I consider this choice of term troublesome. What exactly > is synchronous about a notification that can be left sitting there all > day?
The problem that I see with having different states according to urgency is that urgency and importance of the notification are subjective. Just as an example, I don't want to be notified of most emails but some are extremely important for me and would like to be able to act on them as soon as possible. > I think animations should be avoided for the first case. Too high risk > of being annoying for things that are not important enough. Could it be that pulsing tabs have the risk of becoming the new <blink> tag, and therefore animations should be avoided completely? Felipe _______________________________________________ usability mailing list usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
