this looks pretty cool, notification bubbles..

[Senectus .]

On 12/15/05, Brian Puccio <brian at brianpuccio.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 09:24 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> > http://www.martianrock.com/?p=175
> >
> > This would look bloody brilliant in dapper :-D
>
> It looks cool, but I read an article (or blog entry or something) about
> the usability of same and it raised a few valid points. What if the
> notification pops up while I'm AFK for a glass of water and I miss it?
> The solution to that is to make it require me to click on it to make it
> go away. However, if I'm in the middle of something, I may not want to
> have to push interruptions out of my way. There were a few other issues
> raised in the writing that I don't remember off hand, but it seems to be
> a sticky issue. While I'm sure there is a decent way to implement these,
> it would need to be done right.

I fail to see the problem. You don't use it for notifications that
need to be recognised, OR each app has a "flag" that's user settable
(oops beginning to sound like Linus now :-P ) for  the notifications
staying power for that particular app (a simple check box choice
should do the job I would have thought...)
Then again,I'm not a programmer and these so called "simple concepts"
may not be that simple to implement.

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