this looks pretty cool, notification bubbles..

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:10:38PM -0500, Darryl Clarke wrote:
>On 12/14/05, 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.
>
>Those certainly look pretty...
>
>The current update notification throws a popup bubble like that (not as
>pretty).  It's not overly annoying, but it would be if I weren't using
>a monster screen with a monster resolution.
>
>It also doesn't usually popup unless I manually update my sources list,
>or it updates itself sometime during the night.
>
>If I recall, it doesn't go away until you click it either, but I'll
>have to pay more attention to it next time I see it.
>
>I think for an idle session it'd be fine to popup and wait for
>interaction before vanishing, but for an active user there's nothing
>more annoying than a gigantic bubble telling me something I don't care
>to read.

This whole discussion makes me think of the silly popup bubbles in
Windows (XP I think). It's one of the most annoying things ever with
Windows (slightly exaggerated, I know :-). Especially the printing
bubble, because it doesn't go away on it's own, I have to reach for the
mouse and navigate to the bottom right corner. On a dual screen setup
that is a pain!

If this is introduced I would strongly suggest a
"close-all-f*ing-bubbles" keyboard shortcut. I hardly ever have to reach
for the mouse in my GNOME setup, and I'd be really disappointed if some
eyecandy changes that. Learning yet another keyboard shortcut is
something I could live with.

/M

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