Notifications: uselessness of

[Marius Gedminas]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 07:01:22PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 21:50 +0000, Bruce Cowan wrote:
> > Replacing a "distracting ... bubble that floats on top of your work"
> > with a distracting window that appears behind your work doesn't seem to
> > be much of an improvement. Also, why is the window list considered a
> > second notification area now?
> 
> I'll be interested to see the one that appears behind things... I see my
> desktop about once a week, when logging in. Then after that its a full
> screen terminal, which I never minimise.
> 
> I know plenty of other folk that work in similar ways (many of them use
> terminator and are sysadmins|programmers) :).

The flashing button in the window list tends to attract attention.

Disclaimer: I'm not running Jaunty, so I haven't seen what happens
myself.

Marius Gedminas
-- 
The rest of the world will have to be educated by Microsoft's paperclip
or the DancingGnu (a still to be written Emacs AI tutor for beginning
users), I'm afraid.
	-- Markus Kuhn suggests an Emacs alternative to Vigor and Clippy
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