Notifications: uselessness of

[Chow Loong Jin]

On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 16:56 +0000, Mat Tomaszewski wrote:
> Yes, true. But that's only provided that you understood that you have to 
> click on the icon in the first place. We believe that many people won't 
> get to that conclusion with the U-M icon. That's why we decided to make 
> life easier for them.
You believe? Have you done a study? And exactly how many icons in the
notification area are not clickable anyway? Most, if not all of them
are. How can you even say that people might decide that "oh the u-n icon
probably isn't clickable and I'm not even going to try clicking on it"?

> Right, I'll try to explain again. The bubble does essentially the same 
> thing as the window, and behaves similarly. *Apart* from the fact, that 
> you have to click on *the icon that the bubble points to*, rather than 
> on a bubble. That's tricky! Not only that - the icon itself is 
> enigmatic, and scary! Yes it is, it may not seem scary to you, but we 
> want *everyone* to be able to use Ubuntu and update their system 
> regularly, not just you... That's why, again, we want to make life 
> easier for people.
Yes, of course, and it's such a wonderful idea to pop up the Update
Manager window automatically, so that instead of clicking an icon to
open it, we now have to click a button to close it if we want to
procrastinate a little longer before updating! Geez. There's only so far
you can go to help users before you start becoming pushy and irritating,
and end up hindering them. And this is one such case.

> ...

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Chow Loong Jin
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