this looks pretty cool, notification bubbles..

[Derek Broughton]

Jim Richardson wrote:

> 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.
> 
I like that.
-- 
derek