Comments on: Notifications http://blogs.gnome.org/rodrigo/2005/07/06/notifications/ From lost to the river Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:45:40 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Chris Forsythe http://blogs.gnome.org/rodrigo/2005/07/06/notifications/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Chris Forsythe Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/rodrigo/2005/07/06/notifications/#comment-61 I agree with point number 1 (I believe you are referring to notifications with buttons and not guifications). Perhaps giving dialogues a way to not be the top level window with the default responder set to any buttons would make this type of window easier to use? (I hope that made sense).<p/>On point 2, why not give people a way to have this via a plugin system?<p/>On point 3, it depends on screen size, where the users attention is, etc. When I get a notification in the middle of the screen, it grabs my attention immediately but is annoying as all get out. When I get one at the top right for Bubbles in Growl (for example) I know that it's not really important unless it is red, but that I may want to look at it. When I put my mouse over the notification, it stays on screen until I move it away, because my mouse is probably going to be on the notification 9/10 of the time only if I put it there at that precise moment.<p/>Notifications like this are meant to be temporary. The mockup you link to doesn't seem to be so temporary, whereas the screen shots you posted in the previous blog entry seem a lot more like the idea behind notifications.<p/>Cheers,<br/>Chris I agree with point number 1 (I believe you are referring to notifications with buttons and not guifications). Perhaps giving dialogues a way to not be the top level window with the default responder set to any buttons would make this type of window easier to use? (I hope that made sense).

On point 2, why not give people a way to have this via a plugin system?

On point 3, it depends on screen size, where the users attention is, etc. When I get a notification in the middle of the screen, it grabs my attention immediately but is annoying as all get out. When I get one at the top right for Bubbles in Growl (for example) I know that it’s not really important unless it is red, but that I may want to look at it. When I put my mouse over the notification, it stays on screen until I move it away, because my mouse is probably going to be on the notification 9/10 of the time only if I put it there at that precise moment.

Notifications like this are meant to be temporary. The mockup you link to doesn’t seem to be so temporary, whereas the screen shots you posted in the previous blog entry seem a lot more like the idea behind notifications.

Cheers,
Chris

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