Notifications: uselessness of

[Max Bowsher]

Marius Gedminas wrote:
> 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.

A flashing button in the window list says "deal with me NOW NOW NOW!".

The previous update-notifier orange rosette / red arrow was is easily
noticeable, but not intrusive. A *much* better UI for this kind of
notification.

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