Auto-launching of applications

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
On So, 2009-02-22 at 16:59 +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> Print out a screenshot, actual size, of the panel containing the
> updates-available icon. Show it to fifty people who've used computers
> before but haven't seen Ubuntu before, individually, and ask them what
> that particular icon means.
thats why $DIETY inventd tooltips, no ? 
they will surely notice there is movement in the notification area if
the icon appears (or at least notice there is an icon they dont know if
they were afk while it appeared) its a one time thing to find out what
it is/does, the second time they will know it. 
i dont think judging peoples skills like that is a good idea, when i
first used Mac OS9 in my life a decade ago (being a linux and win user
before) i didnt know half of the icons and their functions either until
i first tried them out an icon is not a bad thing as long as its
distinguishable and memorizable. indeed having it explanatory built is a
bonus, but as you point out 22x22 isnt the size where you can put in
much information, but still punching a user in the face with an app
window that will scare, confuse *and annoy* them and which additionally
adds another 100MB to our minimal system requirements (while we already
have a system that takes far less of your resources) cant be the answer
to that problem imho.

ciao
	oli
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