Comments on: New Notifications for Jaunty

By: Concepto: Notificaciones en Ubuntu Jaunty | TecnoSquad.org

Concepto: Notificaciones en Ubuntu Jaunty | TecnoSquad.org — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:38:03 +0000

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By: Lettre Hebdomadaire Ubuntu numéro 121 du 7 au 13 décembre 2008 « Lettre Hebdomadaire Ubuntu

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:43:00 +0000

[...] Nouvelles notifications pour Jaunty – Awalton nous présente les nouvelles notifications qui vont avoir lieu pour la prochaine sortie de Jaunty Jack. Selon les informations de l’UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit), le Comité de Développement d’Ubuntu, le développement en amont des notifications est au point mort mais Ubuntu et Canonical travaillent dessus pour améliorer la situation. Les mesures qu’ils prennent sont de faire en sorte que les notifications montrent uniquement ce qui se passe sur votre machine, plutôt que d’y associer des boutons d’action. Ces actions seront disponibles dans un panneau applet. Dans un article appelé « Quelques mises à jour de notifications », Awalton explique les choses qui n’étaient pas correctes dans l’article original, tel que le conflit de légalité (juste des problèmes de licence, en fait) et le statut du code (mauvais, et juste pour la démo). [...]

By: Josh Adams

Josh Adams — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:58:15 +0000

Yeah, one of my favorite features in Banshee is the five second span I get to skip a new song in the notification for the ‘now playing’ song. If that has to go away my life will be poorer.

Sigh. I’d love to see a mockup of how they expect to still provide me with that feature in the new system.

By: Konrad

Konrad — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:47:27 +0000

I’m really glad that You do all the design taking into consideration KDE representative arguments Aaron Seigo to enhance multidesktop cooperation between Gnome and KDE. Visual Notifications should be united and compliant to ONE standard.
Shuould I add “me too” to support leave actions in notifications;)
What I don’t really like is Psi pop-ups which are out of any notification system regardless of DE.
I wish You a productive work:)

By: leifer

leifer — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:02:28 +0000

what good is a notification if you can’t do anything with it?

“download finished” – ok take me to the file
“email arrived” – ok let me see the email
“user has signed online” – ok let me IM them

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:33:50 +0000

Where are the mockups?

It should be mandatory to at least have them on a wiki or planet ubuntu.

By: Chris Crisafulli

Chris Crisafulli — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:09:54 +0000

I think the enhancement mock-ups for notification were great! I am sure that there are going to policies or preferences you can adjust to turn off notifications. I am guilty like many others of thinking in the past that Ubuntu should be more like this or that, but to be honest I have had to embrace the fact that a default ubuntu desktop installation isn’t really aimed at fitting my own personal needs.

The purpose behind the new notification method is to be totally unobtrusive but still attention grabbing…. Part of the coolness of the mash up was to hover over it for a second, the notification would go transparent and permit you to get to window or text file that might be underneath it.

I recommend that anyone that reads the comments of this blog and the blog itself to have faith that Ubuntu will do the right thing.

By: David Prieto

David Prieto — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:26:58 +0000

“Please don’t remove actions from the notification!

I want to be able to quickly respond to a notification, without having to track down the app, find the context, then find the gesture to do what I want”.

Indeed.

By: Erigami

Erigami — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:35:45 +0000

Please don’t remove actions from the notification!

I want to be able to quickly respond to a notification, without having to track down the app, find the context, then find the gesture to do what I want.

By: Dereck

Dereck — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:55:25 +0000

Frankly I’m over the way things are going with notifications.

Much of this unnecessary bling is pandering to clueless former windows users, who seem to need the obvious pointed out to them.

Who wants or needs to be reminded that they are connected to a “wired network” everytime they log on for Pete’s sake. I certainly don’t.

At the very least, give people an option switch notifications off, or best case scenario a means to configure which notifications are supplied.

Oh that’s right I forgot it’s all about hand holding now!

Don’t give end users control over their systems by presenting them with too many options it just confuses them.

Linus was right, this users are idiots thing that GNOME has perpetuated and is now seeping into Ubuntu is a disease.

Not just any disease, a cancer.

Perhaps it’s time to change not only my choice of DE but distro as well.