Hello, There's a discussion on Mozilla's Usability list ( dev-usabil...@lists.mozilla.org ) entitled "Keep bar-style notifications for Firefox 4 on Linux instead of doorhanger notifications which breaks consistency on GNOME desktop." You can find the discussion here<http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.usability/browse_thread/thread/21871b42093e5196>and the related bug report here <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598337>.
Alex Faaborg said > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Alex Faaborg <faab...@mozilla.com> wrote: > External consistency is important, but in cases where we feel we have a > better solution to a particular interface, there is an advantage to using > that solution (even if it is different). We've also seen aspects of > Firefox's UI influence the design of Gnome (most recently a discussion > around application buttons that encapsulate the title and main commands). > So these types of changes are more fluid and incremental than a top down > approach where the Gnome team writes a Human Interface Guidelines rule > book, > and then every application has to blindly follow it regardless of if a > better solution exists. > > The specific advantages of our new panel based system are: > > 1. Identifiable with low resolution peripheral vision > 2. Easy to ignore, by clicking outside to close > 3. Easy to bring back, since they have a persistent anchor (supporting undo > if the user changes their mind) > 4. Natual mapping to the site identity block that is originating the > notification, making it clear who is asking for what (more important in the > case of the Web, where these notifications involve permissions, and we want > users to consider the identity of the site asking for their physical > location, or a live feed from their webcam, etc.) > > -Alex > I suggest that we incorporate the UI solutions that upstream projects like Firefox come up with to achieve consistency and (of course) make the desktop experience smoother. I asked for a list of UI solutions like the doorhanger notifications so we can see how we can incorporate each of them to the desktop. -- Regards, Allan http://www.google.com/profiles/allancaeg#about<http://www.google.com/profiles/AllanCaeg> +63 918 948 2520
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