this looks pretty cool, notification bubbles..

[Jim Richardson]

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 21:51 -0500, Brian Puccio 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


Have the notification bubble hang around for a set time *after* some
other user interaction. So If you walk away from your machine for a
while, and the notification pops up, it hangs around until a few seconds
after a key is pressed, or the mouse is moved. Not perfect, but a nice
compromise. 

-- 
Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
"I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up
something else." --Lily Tomlin
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