R: [Fwd: [Ayatana] Empathy is not in line with the much discussed guidelines]

Mark Shuttleworth mark at ubuntu.com
Fri Jul 3 06:30:00 BST 2009


Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> Yes, should be optional also IMHO. But also from comments elsewhere it
> seems the development is concentrated on the existence of the indicator
> applet. 
>
> A sane default behaviour should be chosen also when the applet is not
> there. In particular if "not flashing" is the default perhaps a
> minimised, alerted pop-up for new messages should be the default too,
> when indicator applet is not there (if this can be detected at all),
> otherwise it will be difficult to notice new messages. YMMV of course.
>   

It is easy and fast to detect the messaging indicator (by design, so
that apps can check and behave accordingly). I agree that upstream will
want to think carefully about how to behave when the indicator isn't
there, and we should support them in that, but focus our design
conversation on the standard experience in Ubuntu which is the one with
the messaging indicator.

Mark
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